"Charlie Gordon" <news@chqrlie.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> "Charlie Gordon" <news@chqrlie.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>>> "Richard Heathfield" <rjh@see.sig.invalid> a écrit dans le message de
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>>>> "Big endian" means that the most significant values come first in the
>>>> underlying representation. A good example is prices in a shop: when we
>>>> see
>>>> 39.99 on a pair of jeans, we know that it's about 40 currency units,
>>>> not
>>>> almost a hundred currency units. "Little endian" means that the least
>>>> significant values come first - and I suppose the obvious example would
>>>> be
>>>> UK date format: day/month/year.
>> Same format in the rest of Europe, only a different separator:
>> day.month.year
>> The UK format is pretty hard to distinguish from the US format
>
> France uses day/month/year as well.
Really? OK, learned something new then...

>>> As compared to the big endian notation year.month.day used for example
>>> in Japan,
>> The most sensible IMHO, makes sorting easiest.
>
> As long as year, month and day are formated with a fixed number of digits
> ;-)
Very true

>>> Yet in German, the reading order is different again: 42 is pronounced
>>> zwei und vierzig, big endian writing, little endian reading (for 2
>>> digits only ;-)
>> Actually for the last 2 digits of every number greater then 12.
>
> And for the low digit pairs in every group of three for larger numbers.
Ah, yes, indeed. As I said: a confusing and (therefor) broken concept...