Endian numbers

[Steve Strong]

 Take a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness, it should tell you everything you need.


Cheers,


Steve

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On Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Gilberio Carmenates García wrote:

> Hi all,
> I’ve been always wondering that is the meaning of endian term, for example in the Bit syntax
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> {<<16#12345678:32/big>>,<<16#12345678:32/little>>,
> <<16#12345678:32/native>>,<<16#12345678:32>>}.
> {<<18,52,86,120>>,<<120,86,52,18>>,
> <<120,86,52,18>>,<<18,52,86,120>>}
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> What is the meaning of that I mean what is the different between big, little or native. And the different endian machines. In the JInterface there is a reference to that term too, the big endian the little endian and so on.
> Could anybody explain this to me, I need to now that very well so I can put that in my book.
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> Regards,
> 
> Ivan.
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