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For those of you who don't know what big and little endian are, take a look [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness"]here[/ame].
But I only found out about 2 months ago (despite knowing what it is for the last 10 years) that the term itself comes from Gulliver's Travels in a dispute between Liliput and Blefescu and was used to describe which end of a boiled egg to crack into (the big or the little end, hence the name).
Did you know this?
But I only found out about 2 months ago (despite knowing what it is for the last 10 years) that the term itself comes from Gulliver's Travels in a dispute between Liliput and Blefescu and was used to describe which end of a boiled egg to crack into (the big or the little end, hence the name).
Did you know this?