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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
$ByteOrdering
$ByteOrdering
gives the native ordering of bytes in binary data on your computer system.
Details
- Possible values of $ByteOrdering are
and 
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corresponds to big endian (appropriate for 680x0 and many other processors); 
corresponds to little endian (appropriate for x86 processors). 
corresponds to having the most significant byte first; 
to having the least significant byte first. 
is the order obtained from IntegerDigits[n, 256]. - $ByteOrdering gives the default setting for the ByteOrdering option in Import and Export.
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