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little-endian adj.
Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first'). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian. See [big-endian], [middle-endian], [NUXI problem]. The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte.
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