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語源

Diagrams illustrating the big-endian (left) and little-endian methods of storing a 32-bit integer in computer memory. In the big-endian method, the most significant byte, 0x0A, is stored at the smallest memory address (a), whereas in the little-endian method it is stored at the largest memory address (a+3) (in other words, the least significant byte is stored at the smallest memory address).

From end +‎ -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.

The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛn.dɪ.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɛn.di.ən/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
• Homophone: Indian (pin–pen merger)
• ハイフネーション: end‧i‧an, en‧di‧an

形容詞

endian (not comparable)

1. (computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian). [from 1980]

   endian-neutral code

   • 1984 August 25, Ian Kaplan, “Inconsistent bit addressing in the 68020: big- AND little-endian”, in net.micro.68k‎ (Usenet):

     In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.

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参照

Further reading

• endianness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Aidenn, Andine, Dannie, Dianne, Nadine, indane, neanid

語源

From Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”). Cognate with Old Frisian endia (“to finish”), Old Saxon endiōn (“to come to a stop”), Old High German entōn (“to end”), Old Norse enda (“to end”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈen.di.ɑn/

動詞

endian

1. (intransitive, transitive) to end
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æt þǣm ende, hit beliċġað ðā beorgas, þe man hǣt Alpis: þā onginnað westane fram þǣm Wendelsǣ, in Narbonense þǣre ðēode and endiað eft ēast in Dalmatia þǣm lande, æt þǣm sǣ.

     At the end extend the mountains known as the Alps; they begin in the west of the Mediterranean, in Gallia Narbonensis, and end at the eastern sea in the land of Dalmatia.

2. (transitive) to finish, complete
3. (transitive) to abolish, destroy
4. (intransitive) to come to an end, cease; to die

Conjugation

派生語

• endung
• ġeendian
• ġeendod
• ġeendodlīċ

派生した語

• Middle English: enden
  • English: end
  • Scots: ende, end