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Big Endian is the order the bytes are stored in a word. Four characters 0, 1, 2, 3 stored in a word would be

0

1

2

3

Essentially from left to right, where the left is the first or addressed byte of the word, and the right is the last or end of the addressed word.

See Also LittleEndian

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BigEndian (last edited 2004-02-18 21:25:20 by yakko)