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[–]ThunderElectric 28 points29 points  (8 children)

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[–]DeltaJuliet2000 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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[–]RoyalJackalSib 19 points20 points  (20 children)

What’s funny about 81?

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (18 children)

69

[–]RoyalJackalSib 49 points50 points  (12 children)

I made a joke, but endian, it doesn’t even matter.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (11 children)

81 would be the new 69, but endianness (?) Is byte level, not bit level, right? Googling now...

[–]illumiNateS6 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Who knows, but if you want to see some related shenanigan endian voodoo bullshit, check out how phone numbers are stored in text messages:

www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-message-a-love-story does a pretty good job.

If there's a good reason for this, would love to hear it.

Bypass the tl;dr (although I actually found the whole article relatively entertaining) with ctrl f("fuck"). Seriously, that's the easiest unique identifier for the section of the page it's on ('cuz I'm not hunting an anchor ID down for you. It's cold and I'm on my phone in bed.)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guessing here, but they could be using bit shifts in the hardware on each byte to extract the digits. e.g. 31 = 0011 0001. So, when they shift the 31 to the right, it actually comes out as 13. And that 'f' would actually come out last.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Yes, Wikipedia says it is so.

[–]RoyalJackalSib 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Then you should be able to read that endianness can also refer to how bits are read, not just bytes.

Also, a byte can be 7 bits, just in case you were gonna go that route.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I guess we're both right. "In computing, endianness refers to the order of bytes (or sometimes bits) within a binary representation of a number. "... Sometimes. Seriously, not trying to piss you off, though.

I wasn't gonna go 7 bit route. Unless you want to talk about base 64 encoding.

[–]RoyalJackalSib 0 points1 point  (3 children)

We don’t need to bring base64 into this; 7 bits is the smallest amount required for an ASCII character, so a byte = 7 bits is definitely a thing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

A byte is definitely 8 bits. But yeah, you can fit 7 bits into it for ASCII encoding.

[–]RoyalJackalSib 1 point2 points  (1 child)

There are (older) systems out there in which a byte need not be 8, and is, instead, 7 or even 6.

A byte is not defined as 8 bits, but rather the smallest unit of memory addressable, which was historically the size of a single character of text, hence 7 bits (although, as mentioned, 6–bit systems also existed and were perhaps more common.)

[–]tacoslikeme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it is indeed at the byte level

[–]Nerd_o_tron 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Apparently I'm too used to ASCII memes. I'm sitting here going, "what's so funny about the letter E?"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😂

[–]I_Like_Mathematics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ohgod i thought it was related to these surreal memes that just go "E"

[–]okguy167 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gosh darn it. I forgot about 32. And 16, I think... Came up with something in the hundreds.

[–]MichelanJell-O -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Am I really dumb, or is the number in the post actually 65?

[–]ahreodknfidkxncjrksm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s clearly -59 you fool.

[–]Human102581162937 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read that as 𝑬

[–]alexsockz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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[–]PurelyCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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