Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a set of disputers about trifles. Also used adjectively. See
big-endian .
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- adjective computing Of a computer, storing the
most significant byte of amultibyte number at a higheraddress than theleast significant byte ; that is, "little end" first.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There have been plenty of other apparently minor mistakes in computing that continue to create real headaches: for example, the different line end characters used on Windows, Unix, and Apple; or the big-endian/little-endian distinction in hardware integer representation.
The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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A number of .jpeg files, with headers, each prepended by a 24-bit (3-byte) little-endian value representing the size, and buffered at the end with nulls, so that they are at predictable locations (the jpeg modulo).
Miriam Ruiz 2007
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Debian fully supports a port to little-endian ARM.
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MIPS is luckily little-endian, same as ARM (as used in Nintendo DS) and the x86 architecture.
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Debian fully supports a port to little-endian ARM.
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I don't like de-muxing and re-muxing unless it's all automated by a nice GUI, and Super (c) to make an AVI with a copy of the original video stream and PCM little-endian sound.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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Companies can now leverage the power of Android for both big-endian and little-endian versions of MIPS processors for their SoCs targeting devices such as digital TVs (DTVs), set-top boxes (STBs) and a range of other applications in the digital home and beyond.
News 2010
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Libsndfile was designed to handle both big-endian (such as AIFF) and little-endian (such as WAV) data, and to compile and run correctly on little-endian (such as Intel and DEC/Compaq Alpha) processor systems as well as big-endian processor systems.
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Companies can now leverage the power of Android for both big-endian and little-endian versions of MIPS processors for their SoCs targeting devices such as digital TVs (DTVs), set-top boxes (STBs) and a range of other applications in the digital home and beyond.
News 2010
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I don't like de-muxing and re-muxing unless it's all automated by a nice GUI, and Super (c) to make an AVI with a copy of the original video stream and PCM little-endian sound.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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