big-endian
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Etymology
See the etymology for endian.
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big-endian (not comparable)
- (computing) Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
- (networking) Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
- 1994, James Martin, Joe Leben, TCP/IP Networking: Architecture, Administration, and Programming, Prentice Hall, page 203:
- The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.
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computing: storing the most significant byte at a lower address
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Endianness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
