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Little Endian is the order the bytes are stored in a word. Four characters 0, 1, 2, 3 stored in a word would be

3

2

1

0

Essentially from right to left, where the right is the first or addressed byte of the word, and the left is the last or end of the addressed word.

See Also BigEndian

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LittleEndian (last edited 2004-02-18 21:29:55 by yakko)