These positions can be mapped to memory mainly in two ways:
* Decreasing numeric significance with increasing memory addresses, known as big-endian and
* Increasing numeric significance with increasing memory addresses, known as little-endian.

In big-endian and little-endian, the end is the extremity where the big or little significance is written in the location indexed by the lowest memory address.

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When character (text) strings are to be compared with one another, e.g., in order to support some mechanism

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