big-endian

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N An unsigned long in "network" (big-endian) order. v An unsigned short in "VAX"

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  1. A member of the Lilliputian party in Swift's “Gulliver's Travels” who maintained, in opposition to the little-endians, that boiled eggs should be cracked at the big end; hence, one of any corresponding set of disputers about trifles.
  2. Pertaining or relating to the big end of an egg, or any equally foolish matter, as a subject of controversy.

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  • N An unsigned long in "network" (big-endian) order. v An unsigned short in "VAX" —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I was hoping to be able to read the code files into arrays, but unfortunately the Python array type only supports the native byte-order (SPARC is big-endian and I was intending to use an x86 which is little-endian). —  Planet Debian
  • BitConverter JavaScript class supports little-endian (default), big-endian byte orders and numeric arrays. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • Replication: Row-based replication did not correctly copy TIMESTAMP values from a big-endian storage engine to a little-endian storage engine.
  • Re-running it again with FF3, I get this: which is the UTF-8 BOM in little - and big-endian. —  The Web Security Mailing List (WASC)
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