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middle-endian
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adj. Not big-endian or little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as
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3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
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minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI problem.
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Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American mm/dd/yy style of
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writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy, and Japanese use
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big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).
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