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