The "significant" indicates how the bits are stored in memory, which follows
the big-endian/little-endian paradigm. In big-endian the most significant
bit is stored first (IBM), whereas in little-endian, the least significant
bit is stored first (every body else).
CM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dasari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 May 2001 09:09
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> Subject: The most and least significant bits [7:5882]
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>
> Hi folks:
>
> I am trying to grapple with the address conversion issues
> between unlike
> media (ie ethernet and tokenring). I have seen in this occassion and
> elsewhere people/books referring to the most and the least
> significant bits.
>
> My question here is what really are these bits. The word
> "signifcant", at
> least as I understand it, describes the importance of a
> noun/pronoun it
> qualifies (either in relation to some other noun/pronoun or
> by itself). It
> seems the usage in the context of hardware addresses seem to
> refer to the
> position of a bit in a byte , for example, in 1000 0000 the
> most significant
> bit is 1 and the least significant bit is 0. It looks like
> this stands true
> wether the address is represented canonically or
> non-canonically. Am I right
> here in assuming it?
>
> Can somebody comment on it. Thanks for your help.
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