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Endianness is a way of storing numbers in memory. There are two ways to do this, called big-endian and little-endian. In big-endian, the most significant byte is stored first, and in little-endian, the least significant byte is stored first.

Here's an example: let's say we have the number 12345. In big-endian, this would be stored as 0x05040302, because the most significant byte is 0x05. In little-endian, it would be stored as 0x02030405, because the least significant byte is 0x02.

Endianness can be important when you're working with data that's been stored in a file or transmitted over a network. If you don't know the endianness of the data, you could end up interpreting it incorrectly.

Here's a simple way to remember the difference between big-endian and little-endian: big-endian is like a big person, who puts their biggest shoe on first. Little-endian is like a little person, who puts their littlest shoe on first.

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