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Re: little-endian

From "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: little-endian
Date 2012-11-16 23:32 +0100
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bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> writes:

> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 4:06:17 PM UTC-6, robert...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> The terms actually come from Jonathan Swift's, "Gulliver�s Travels"
>> 
>> where there were two rival kingdoms, one where they ate eggs starting
>> 
>> at the little end (aka the "little endians") and the other in which it
>> 
>> was correct to eat the egg from the big end. So it's really a
>> 
>> statement of which end you start the number (or egg) from.
>
> I don't see the explicit mention of 'Little-endian' in the book, but I guess it's implied:
>
> It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times
> suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller
> end.   Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this
> controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long
> forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding
> employments.
>
> Swift, Jonathan (2012-05-12). Gulliver's Travels (Timeless Classics)
> (Kindle Locations 530-532). Saddleback Educational Publishing. Kindle
> Edition.

I'm a little endian egg eater, but a big endian programmer.  I prefer
my numbers stored in memory big endian first :-)


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com

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little-endian bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-11-15 13:45 -0800
  Re: little-endian JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-11-15 23:33 +0000
  Re: little-endian bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-11-16 10:38 -0800
    Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-16 23:32 +0100
      Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-16 21:17 -0600
        Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-17 10:26 +0100
          Re: little-endian "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-17 11:38 +0000
            Re: little-endian "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2012-11-17 13:56 +0100
              Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:58 -0600
            Re: little-endian Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-17 19:35 +0000
              Re: little-endian "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-17 19:50 +0000
          Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 11:30 -0600
            Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 09:28 +1300
              Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-17 14:48 -0600
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-17 16:22 -0600
                Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 15:17 +1300
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 09:13 +0100
                Re: little-endian Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 21:33 +1300
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 10:15 +0100
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 03:03 -0600
                Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-18 10:29 +0100
                Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-18 12:50 -0600
  Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 04:49 -0800
    Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-23 15:22 +0100
      Re: little-endian pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-11-25 19:39 +0000
        Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-26 12:01 +0100
          Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-26 14:02 +0100
            Re: little-endian Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-11-26 15:34 +0100
              Re: little-endian "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-11-26 17:03 +0100
              Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-26 17:44 -0600
                Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 23:43 -0800
                Re: little-endian Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-29 22:46 -0600
          Re: little-endian BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-26 08:30 -0600
        Re: little-endian Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 23:45 -0800

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