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Byte Ordering on Big Endian and Little Endian Platforms
On big endian platforms, the value 1 is stored in binary and is represented here in hexadecimal notation. One byte is stored as 01, two bytes as 00 01, and four bytes as 00 00 00 01. On little endian ...
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Working with Packed Decimal and Zoned Decimal Data
Zoned decimal specifies a method of encoding decimal numbers in which each digit requires one byte of storage. The last byte contains the number's sign as well as the last digit. Zoned decimal data ...