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Re: Ascending vs descending bit order

by smitz (Chaplain)
on Jul 01, 2002 at 15:24 UTC ( #178583=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Ascending vs descending bit order

See:
Big Endian and Little Endian for the difference.
Why one is used over another is mostly (/me thinks ?) down to the system.

SMiTZ


Comment on Re: Ascending vs descending bit order
Re^2: Ascending vs descending bit order
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 01, 2002 at 15:41 UTC
    Careful, nothing to do with big vs little endian which are byte order variations, as opposed to the pack formats which differ in the bit order. Observe: 
    $ perl -le'print ord pack "B*", "00000001"'
1
$ perl -le'print ord pack "b*", "00000001"'
128

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