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[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Bob Kline writes:
 > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sam Sam wrote:
 > 
 > > isn't 0x01000000 means 2^6=64 while 0x00000001 means 2^0=1 ?? CMIIW
 > > please... why intel use 0x01000000 as representation of 1 ??
 > 
 > It doesn't.  The notation 0xHHHHHHHH (where H is a hex digit) is
 > properly used to represent the logical value of the storage unit.  When
 > the ordering of the bytes used to store that value is to be represented
 > a notation like "HH HH HH HH" is used.  So you might write "an Intel
 > machine stores the value 0x00000001 as 01 00 00 00."  You would not want
 > to write "an Intel machine stores the value 0x00000001 as 0x01000000."

Indeed - my bad, didn't take enough time to properly frame the
explanation.

Michael
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