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most significant byte

noun

Definitions

  1. The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance

    The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance: that is, the byte stored first on a big-endian system or last on a little-endian system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for most significant byte. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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