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'''Big-endian''' is a term created by Danny Cohen (technically, he re-purposed it from Jonathan Swift's satire, "Gulliver's Travels", where it refers to the dispute over whether to start eating a boiled egg from the big end or the little end) for the different schemes for ordering bits and bytes within larger entities.

'Big-endian' refers to machines (like the [[IBM System/360]]) which number the bits and bytes from the least significant (low-order) end.

Since the preponderance of machines in use when the protocols of the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] were developed were big-endian, that became (and remains to this day) the order in which bytes in words are transmitted. Therefore, big-endian byte order is sometimes called '''network byte order'''.

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 '''Big-endian''' is a term created by Danny Cohen (technically, he re-purposed it from Jonathan Swift's satire, "Gulliver's Travels", where it refers to the dispute over whether to start eating a boiled egg from the big end or the little end) for the different schemes for ordering and numbering [[bit]]s and [[byte]]s within larger entities.
-'Big-endian' refers to machines (like the [[IBM System/360]]) which number the bits and bytes from the least significant (low-order) end.
+'Big-endian' refers to machines (like the [[IBM System/360]]) which number the bits and bytes from the most significant (high-order) end.
-Since the preponderance of machines in use when the protocols of the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] were developed were big-endian, that became (and remains to this day) the order in which bytes in [[word]]s are sent over the network. Therefore, big-endian byte order is sometimes called '''network byte order'''.
+Since the preponderance of machines in use when the protocols of the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] were developed were big-endian, that became (and remains to this day) the order in which bytes within [[word]]s are sent over the network. Therefore, big-endian byte order is sometimes called '''network byte order'''.
 ==See also==

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	Since the preponderance of machines in use when the protocols of the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] were developed were big-endian, that became (and remains to this day) the order in which bytes in [[word]]s are sent over the network. Therefore, big-endian byte order is sometimes called '''network byte order'''.		Since the preponderance of machines in use when the protocols of the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]] were developed were big-endian, that became (and remains to this day) the order in which bytes in [[word]]s are sent over the network. Therefore, big-endian byte order is sometimes called '''network byte order'''.
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		+	==See also==
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		+	* [[Little-endian]]