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HawkEye (Guest)

Another piece of trivia related to IT and 'Gullivers Travels'....

An issue many network people would be familiar with is refered to as "Big Endian - Little Endian". It involves debate over which way bits in a data stream should be sent. They can be sent with the most significant bit first ("Big Endian") or the least significant bit first ("Little Endian"). These expressions had their origins in Gullivers Travels. Apparently in Gullivers Travels two nation go to war over the issue of which end of a boiled egg should be pointing up when eaten for breakfast (or something to that effect).

0110 0111 (most significant bit is leading bit which has a "value" of 128 out of a total 256 (starts at zero, 0 - 255)). Least significant bit is last bit which is worth 1 out of 256.

2/14/0312:16 PM

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