The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little. A big endian representation has a multibyte integer written with its most significant byte on the left; a number represented thus is easily read by ...

Integer values are typically stored in one of three sizes: one-byte, two-byte, or four-byte. The ordering of the bytes for the integer varies depending on the platform (operating environment) on which ...