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Little Endian

Little Endian is the layout of multibyte values in memory used by many processors, including Intel x86's and OKI 66k's.

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Little Endian is the layout of multi-byte values in memory used by many processors, including Intel x86's and OKI 66k's. Little Endian layout stores the least significant byte first. For 16-bit values, the actual value is Second Byte*256 + First Byte

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