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Silly aside: I didn't read the book and was very confused for a long time since I assumed endian meant the specified byte goes last.
by USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y ago
Silly aside: I didn't read the book and was very confused for a long time since I assumed endian meant the specified byte goes last.
- djbusby 2y agoLittle End In (first) == little endian.
- dcminter 2y agoIt may be a handy mnemonic, but it's not the etymology (you may know this, but I can't resist the pedantic opportunity!) It comes from Swift's satire about egg eaters. The end in question was the small or large end of the egg and Big Endians broke the big end with the spoon - i.e. it went into the egg cup small end down. The -ian suffix here is analogous to Christ-ian or Keynes-ian and has nothing to do with "in".