• uis@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Every single one has the exact same address; they have significance order, but that’s entirely orthogonal to memory.

    We are talking about transferring data, not storing it. For example SPI allows both for LSb-first and MSb-first. In date digit-number-date is like bit-byte-word.

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      Right, and in data transfer every byte can be placed in an absolute order relative to every other. And the digits within the respective fields are already big-endian (most significant digit first), so making the fields within the whole date little-endian is mixed-endian.

      I have iterated this several times, so I worry there’s a fundamental miscommunication happening here.

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        big-endian (most significant byte or in our case number first).

        Digit in base2 is bit. Endianess is byte order, not bit order. MSb is bit order.