Endianness
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In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word data type are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared
The novel best known as Gulliver's Travels is the original source of the terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian. Author Jonathan Swift is pictured on the frontispiece of this 1726 edition.
Lilliput and Blefuscu
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Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South
Endianness
…published in 1980. Cohen borrowed the terms from an absurd episode in the satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. In the imaginary land of Lilliput, scholars are fiercely divided by a never-ending debate over how correctly to break the shell of a boiled egg. Those who insist on breaking the big end…
Gulliver inspecting the army of Lilliput
Gulliver and the Emperor of Lilliput, from a French edition of Gulliver's Travels (1850s)
Lilliput House, overlooking Lough Ennell in County Westmeath