Re: Ascending vs descending bit order

See:
Big Endian and Little Endian for the difference.
Why one is used over another is mostly (/me thinks ?) down to the system.

SMiTZ

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Re^2: Ascending vs descending bit order by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 01, 2002 at 15:41 UTC
Careful, nothing to do with big vs little endian which are byte order variations, as opposed to the pack formats which differ in the bit order. Observe: `$ perl -le'print ord pack "B", "00000001"' 1 $ perl -le'print ord pack "b", "00000001"' 128` [download] Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]