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6 Oct 2024 07:18:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pi Day of the century  
From: clipka
Date: 30 Mar 2015 09:11:13
Message: <55194b71$1@news.povray.org>
Am 29.03.2015 um 18:46 schrieb Andrel:

> At least there is confusion enough to be able to claim that when in
> computer science class a teacher or a student claims that big-endian is
> much more logical. That will hopefully confuse them enough to refrain
> from absolute statements in the future.

Fun fact to know: Big-Endian byte ordering is also referred to as 
Network Order, because that's what is used in TCP/IP and Ethernet...

... but the bit ordering within each byte on Ethernet is Little-Endian!


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