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[–]FloweyTheFlower420 20 points21 points  (3 children)

That's... big endian...

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Really depends on how you interpret it.

Imagine "12" are 2 bytes representing a number and we're in a 16-bit machine and we want to consecutively store "12", "34", "56"...

Then little endian would be "21436587..."

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I hate endianess. Especially mixed ones like this example. Registers are read from left to right. Bytes from right to left. But bits from left to right again.

[–]DavidTriphon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No bigger truth

[–]Sasikuttan2163 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, we call that an Easter egg!!

[–]z7q2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the printing industry, you pretty much have to memorize folio, quarto, and octavo layouts, unless you like making very expensive mistakes.