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I'm not sure. I was confused for years thinking that "big-endian" meant "the big number is at the end". It was only after reading Gulliver's Travels that it cli

I'm not sure. I was confused for years thinking that "big-endian" meant "the big number is at the end". It was only after reading Gulliver's Travels that it clicked. I'm all for silly names, but I think this one went a little too much into obscure references and metaphors.

wbl 2y ago
The RFC makes the reference explicit. https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt