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endianness

the order of the bytes, comprising a digital word, in computer memory, based on significance
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Summary

endianness ranks in the top 0.85% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,443 views/month, #662 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Danny Cohen[2]
  • Named after: Gulliver's Travels[3]
  • Subclass of: order[4]
  • Commons category: Endianness[5]
  • Facet of: computer memory[6], central processing unit[7]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/endianness[8]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3374[9]

Why It Matters

endianness has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] endianness is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

central processing unit computer memory Danny Cohen Gulliver's Travels

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . theregister.co.uk. Retrieved . theregister.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . cs.umd.edu. Retrieved . cs.umd.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2686, 5147
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 5147, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7331687|byte order (#7331687)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2686, 5147
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'f
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2686, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327989|byte order (#7327989)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 11w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Osdev article id → 3744
    Subclass of → order
    Main wikidata property → P3374
    Discoverer or inventor → Danny Cohen
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Osdev article id: 3744, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/299326440|Endianness (#299326440)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8178|OSDev articles]] #mix'n"
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