#CS250#Information#Computer-Science
- Memory is addressed by the byte
- Might be numbered first to last
- Least significant bit to Most significant bit or vice versa
- Computer designs need only be internally consistent in byte ordering
- Byte order is important when sending information between computers, they have to know the order of the bytes to be able to interpret them
- Little Endian vs Big Endian ordering
- In Little Endian ordering, the least significant bit comes first. The “Little” byte is placed in the lowest memory address followed by rest from LSB -> MSB
- In Big Endian ordering, the most significant bit/byte comes first, it goes in the lowest memory location. The remaining bytes take up the rest of the lcoations.
