What is the difference between little-endian and big-endian? Storage byte order Floating-point precision O Space requirements Size of declared variables

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What is the difference between little-endian and big-endian?
Storage byte order
O Floating-point precision
O Space requirements
Size of declared variables
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Endianness is a term that describes the order in which a succession of bytes is stored in computer memory. Endianness can be either big or small.

Big-endian is an order in which the "big end" (most significant value in the sequence) will store first. 

Little-endian is an order in which the "little end" (least significant value in the sequence) will store first.

 

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