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For questions about method for storing and manipulating numbers on computer systems, such as floating point or binary representations.

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Why does little endian apply to numbers and not to text strings?

The Portable Executable file format is the format that Windows EXE files use. It is a binary format. Numbers are in little endian form. Thus, the following hex represents the decimal number 256, not …
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