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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian"
Summary: Fixed point or integer?
Message-ID: <1085@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 89 10:30:05 GMT
References: <10728@wright.mips.COM>
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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In article <10728@wright.mips.COM>, earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian) writes:
> The thing I like about little endian is that for fixed point
> arithmetic, the point is in a fixed place. :-)

I agree that this is the case for integer arithmetic, but for fixed point
arithmetic (binary numbers between 0 and 1, for example), the point is in
a fixed place in big endian, but not little endian.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
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