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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Standard for Network Floating Point Numbers
Message-ID: <7829@alice.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 12:24:25 GMT
References: <13098@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <13098@brl-adm.ARPA>, mike@BRL.ARPA writes:
> Because we chose to use the IEEE 754 representation, sent in Big-Endian
> order, I suspect that there should not be a whole lot of debate about
> such a standard.

IEEE 754 says nothing about the sequence of bits within a word.
Even a machine that stores all the even-numbered bits and then
all the odd-numbered bits is permitted.