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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>middle-endian</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="micros-tilde-1.html" title="micros~1"/><link rel="next" href="middle-out-implementation.html" title="middle-out implementation"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">middle-endian</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="middle-endian"/><dt xmlns="" id="middle-endian"><b>middle-endian</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Not <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a> or
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<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a>. Used of perverse byte orders such as
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3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
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minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See
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<a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a>. Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American
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mm/dd/yy style of writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy,
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and Japanese use big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="micros-tilde-1.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="middle-out-implementation.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">micros~1 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> middle-out implementation</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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