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Endianness
In little endian, a number is laid out in memory with the least significant byte first. Thus 0x12345678
is stored like so: 0x78 | 0x56 | 0x34 | 0x12
.
In big endian, the number is stored with the order of bytes reversed.
Big endian is also referred to as
network byte order (See
RFC 1700).