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little-endian: adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or
32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is
stored ‘little-end-first’). The PDP-11
and VAX families of computers and Intel
microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are
little-endian. See big-endian,
middle-endian, NUXI problem.
The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than
bytes; most often, bits within a byte.
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