• linja@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

      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.