Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- Pertaining or relating to the big end of an egg, or any equally foolish matter, as a subject of controversy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective computing Of a computer, storing the
most significant byte of amultibyte number at a loweraddress than theleast significant byte ; that is, "big end" first. - adjective computing Of a computer, transmitting
most significant byte of amultibyte number before transmitting theleast significant byte ; that is, "big 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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As I said earlier, the oiv data files are in big-endian format and therefore need to be accessed differently than the others.
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NOVI SAD, Serbia, April 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RT-RK, a leading provider of embedded system design and system software development in the field of consumer electronics, today announced successful porting of a big-endian version of the Android ™ platform for the MIPS® architecture.
News 2010
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· Little-endian and big-endian architectures are supported.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 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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The big-endian version of Android is available immediately and includes support for select MIPS-Based ™ platforms.
News 2010
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Unicode is used for all sorts of puposes, not just XML encoding, and so it also has a mechanism to distinguish between small-endian and big-endian encodings, which determine which byte comes first in UTF-16 and UTF-32.
MSDN Blogs marcelolr 2010
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Therefore, the keys are stored in a kind of big-endian format, with a prefix byte in front that indicates magnitude and length:
The Code Project Latest Articles Qwertie 2010
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Developers only have problems when they use processor-specific features like SSE/Altivec/NEON, or when they share data between processors of different endianness - which doesn't apply to ARM/PowerPC, since they are both big-endian.
MyAppleMenu 2010
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NOVI SAD, Serbia, April 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RT-RK, a leading provider of embedded system design and system software development in the field of consumer electronics, today announced successful porting of a big-endian version of the Android ™ platform for the MIPS® architecture.
News 2010
hernesheir commented on the word big-endian
That said, little-endian and bi-endian are additional states of endianness. I looked it up.
January 8, 2012