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Big Endian - definition(s)

big endian - [hardware] A computer hardware architecture in which, within a multibyte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address and the remaining bytes are encoded in decreasing order of significance.

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Source: esri, 31 January 2012 09:23:26, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation External 


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