Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or
32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the
word is stored `little-end-first'). The {PDP-11} and {VAX} families
of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications
and networking hardware are little-endian. See {big-endian},
{middle-endian}, {NUXI problem}. The term is sometimes used to
describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits
within a byte.
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