RFC 1983:Internet Users' Glossary
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big-endian


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... Border Gateway Protocol big-endian A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the ...
... "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. The Lilliputians, being very small, had correspondingly small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties debated over whether soft- boiled eggs should be opened at the big end or the little end. See also: little-endian. ...
... binary data in which the least significant byte (bit) comes first. See also: big-endian. [RFC1208] ...



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