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dataflowtoday at 4:15 AM1 replyview on HN

> No, BE is logical because it puts bits and bytes in the same order.

This sounds confused. The "order" of bits is only an artifact of our human notation, not some inherent order. If you look at how an integer is implemented in hardware (say in a register or in combinational logic), you're not going to find the bits being reversed every byte.


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yjftsjthsd-htoday at 4:48 AM

Okay, if you get everyone to write bits the other way I'll endorse LE as intuitive/logical. Until then, I want my bits and bytes notated uniformly.

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