At 04:44 PM 11/14/98 -0800, EKR wrote:
IMHO "most significant octet to least significant octet" might be
considered ambiguous. Perhaps "first to last octet" (assuming that's
what it means) would be clearer.
It might be ambiguous, but so is 'first to last', IMHO.
How about
'most significant (leftmost) to least significant (rightmost) octet'
Er, I really don't like "left" and "right", since a fair number of people
in the world write from right to left. I propose:
most significant (first) octet to least significant (last) octet
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