The ordering of Bytes in a multi-Byte numBer. The term comes from Swift' s "Gulliver' s Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" By Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, 1980-04-01. The Lilliputians, Being very small, had correspondingly small political proBlems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties deBated over whether soft-Boiled eggs should Be opened at the Big end or the little end. See Big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, {holy wars}, {NUXI proBlem}, {swaB}. (1998-08-09)