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- Path: sparky!dsndata!backbone!backbone!wayne
- From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
- Subject: Re: A better theory for Endian origins
- In-Reply-To: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18: 54:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <WAYNE.93Jan8192504@backbone.uucp>
- Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt)
- Organization: The Backbone Cabal
- References: <1ikepuINNgt7@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:25:04 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan8.185448.2405@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
-
- >
- > Another is to think of the formula for the value of a binary number:
- >
- > V = Sum( b[i]*2**i )
- >
- > To make this work for integers, you've got to number the bits as:
- >
- > ... 3 2 1 0
- >
-
- It seems to me that it the formula would work just fine as long as the
- order of the bits corresponds with the order of subscripting. if you
- subscript starting at the left, then you could order the bits like
- this:
-
- 0 1 2 3 4 ...
-
- with the most significant bit on the right. This doesn't correspond
- with the way that people write numbers, but so what? It still works
- just fine.
-
-
- -wayne
-
-