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Some people have argued that little-endian byte order is better for multi-
precision arithmetic.  I don't think this is true.

If you're only using a few bytes, you add the low bytes, and then add the high
bytes - with no change in efficiency for either order.  But if you need to
use a loop to do the addition,  on the vast majority of CPU's it's quicker
to start at the highest address and go down to zero, saving a comparison
each time 'round the loop. (Of course, if you're counting from a to b,
neither of which are zero, then you have equality again.)

Thus big-endian order is better.

	-Colin Plumb (ccplumbwatnot.UUCP)

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