Most of the processor architectures which we come into contact with today are little-endian systems, meaning that they store and address bytes in a least-significant byte (LSB) order. Unlike in ...

Byte order refers to the order of digits in computer words at least 16 bits long. See word. Big endian is how we normally deal with numbers: the most significant byte or digits are placed leftmost ...

The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and the "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...