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So, it is some sort of holy war in the computer world, and either side is not going to give up easily.<\/p>\n<p>The little endian have their idea coming from daily language, such as English.  We write characters from left to right, start with the first character, second character and so on.  Thus, they think it is natural to send the least significant bit first.  The big endian are inspired by the mathematicians.  In maths, we write from left to right begins with the most significant digit.  Each camp has its merits and has been rallying troops for the endian war.\u00a0 The paper was published in 1981, almost a quarter century ago.  Today, the computer world is still split along the line of endian with different protocols, architectures on each camp.\u00a0 This give us lots of headache when we are building chips to bridge different protocols.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the endian war will never end.  As Cohen said, agreement upon an order is more important than the order agree upon.  Shall we toss a coin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The endian is one of the most confusing concept in computer design. 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