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'''Little-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.

'Little-endian' refers to machines (like the [[Intel x86]]) which number the bits and bytes from the least significant (low-order) end.

Some machines (often dubbed 'mixed-endian') are not consistent; e.g. the [[PDP-11]], which is mostly little endian - for bits with bytes/words, and bytes within words - but not words within long-words.

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 'Little-endian' refers to machines (like the [[Intel x86]]) which number the bits and bytes from the least significant (low-order) end.
-Some machines (sometimes dubbed ''mixed-endian'') are not consistent; e.g. the [[PDP-11]], which is mostly little endian - for bits with bytes/[[word]]s, and bytes within words - but not words within long-words.
+Some machines (sometimes dubbed ''mixed-endian'') are not consistent; e.g. the [[PDP-11]], which is mostly little endian - for bits within bytes/[[word]]s, and bytes within words - but not words within long-words.
 ==See also==

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-'''Little-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.
+'''Little-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.
 'Little-endian' refers to machines (like the [[Intel x86]]) which number the bits and bytes from the least significant (low-order) end.
-Some machines (often dubbed 'mixed-endian') are not consistent; e.g. the [[PDP-11]], which is mostly little endian - for bits with bytes/words, and bytes within words - but not words within long-words.
+Some machines (sometimes dubbed ''mixed-endian'') are not consistent; e.g. the [[PDP-11]], which is mostly little endian - for bits with bytes/[[word]]s, and bytes within words - but not words within long-words.