endianness
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thumb|upright=2|Diagram demonstrating big- versus little-endianness
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21 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Characteristics
- Numbers
- Text
- Byte addressing
- Byte swapping
- Considerations
- Simplified access to part of a field
- Calculation order
- Hardware
- Bi-endianness
- Floating point
- Variable-length data
- Middle-endian
- Software
- Logic design
- Files and filesystems
- Networking
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=2|Diagram demonstrating big- versus little-endianness
In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word data type are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness. Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian (BE) or little-endian (LE).
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