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Big Endian

  • The big end is at the top
  • MSB comes first
  • This is the natural way

Consider the data 0xDEADBEEF

Address Data
0x0000.0000 0xDE
0x0000.0001 0xEA
0x0000.0002 0xDB
0x0000.0003 0xEF
0x0000.0004 0xEF