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Little Endian: An encoding method by which the Least significant Byte is stored in the high order bits of a 16 bit word. This is how Intel based CPUs store data. Exchanged as part of the transfer syntax during negotiation. Conversion to Big Endian would require swapping each byte within the words.
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