Re: A better theory for Endian origins

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From: Wayne Schlitt
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 01:25

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In article <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:

> 
>    Another is to think of the formula for the value of a binary number:
> 
>   V = Sum( b[i]*2**i )
> 
> To make this work for integers, you've got to number the bits as:
> 
>   ... 3 2 1 0
> 

It seems to me that it the formula would work just fine as long as the
order of the bits corresponds with the order of subscripting.  if you
subscript starting at the left, then you could order the bits like
this:

0 1 2 3 4 ... 

with the most significant bit on the right.  This doesn't correspond
with the way that people write numbers, but so what?  It still works
just fine.

-wayne

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Subject: Re: A better theory for Endian origins
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