 Messages in this thread On 23 Oct 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >
That's bigendian (the high-order digit comes first, or to the
left, > because Latin-script text is L->R.) That happens to be
pretty much > the only reason why some computers unfortunately
use the same ordering > in memory.  right, and to note: the
people who invented our number scheme, the Arabs, are writing
from R->L. So the 'natural' endianess is the little one;-)   the
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