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Which term in computer science is a reference to the ” holy war” between inhabitants of the two Islands shown below?
The root-cause of the war was about how to break this
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Answer: The terms little endian and big endian’s etymological roots can be traced to the book “Gulliver’s Travels” where people from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu fight a holy war because they cannot agree upon which side a boiled egg has to be broken from.
I will quote Rahulk for details
“The term big-endian originally comes from Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 1726, Swift described tensions in Lilliput and Blefuscu: whereas royal edict in Lilliput requires cracking open one’s soft-boiled egg at the small end, inhabitants of the rival kingdom of Blefuscu crack theirs at the big end (giving them the moniker Big-endians).The terms little-endian and endianness have a similar intent.”
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September 1st, 2010 at 12:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283302425 )
Big-endian/Little-endian
September 1st, 2010 at 1:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283303137 )
Endian
The use of the terms “Big-Endian” and “Little-Endian” in the story is the source of the computing term endianness.
September 1st, 2010 at 1:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283304187 )
Big-Endian (people who break the egg at the larger end) and Little-Endian (people who break the egg at the smaller end).
War between Blefescu and Lilliput in Jonathan Swift’s Guliver Travels.
September 1st, 2010 at 2:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283307723 )
The conflict was over which end of a soft-boiled egg to break and divided the islands into camps of little-endians and big-endians.
Endianness in computer terms references which way the bits are stuffed into memory addresses. MSB or LSB, first.
Can’t wait for, “Pie are round… Cornbread are square.”!
September 1st, 2010 at 2:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283308630 )
the big endian and little endian thingie, the two islands being lilliput and blefescu
September 1st, 2010 at 2:52 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283309531 )
Endian. Big-endian vs. little-endian. With respect to integer encoding.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283312389 )
endianness
September 1st, 2010 at 3:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283312701 )
Endianness
Ref :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#History
Thanks. Had no idea abt this!!!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283321782 )
Lilliput (the little-endians) and Blefuscu (big-endian) from Gulliver’s Travels.
“Endian-ness” arose out of a dispute over which side the egg should be broken.
September 1st, 2010 at 6:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283322248 )
The two islands are Lilliput and Blefuscu, which are fictional island nations from Gulliver’s Travels.
The Computer term being ‘Endianness’
September 1st, 2010 at 6:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283323358 )
endianness (big/little-endian)
September 1st, 2010 at 6:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283324266 )
ah, Big-endian and Little-Endian. Endianness.
September 1st, 2010 at 7:39 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283326786 )
Differences in big and little endianness in computers is compared to the conflict between Lilliputs about breaking the egg from smaller end or bigger
September 1st, 2010 at 8:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283329201 )
Endianness
September 1st, 2010 at 10:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283335884 )
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels.
Islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu’s fight over which side of the egg is to be broken first.
Hence the terms, little-endian, and big-endian.
Introduced by Danny Cohen in his paper “On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
September 1st, 2010 at 10:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283335954 )
Oh, and thanks for the wishes. had narrowly missed the 50 last time. :)
September 1st, 2010 at 10:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283337171 )
Big endian & Little endian
September 1st, 2010 at 11:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283339857 )
Endian: Big Endian, Little Endian.
War based on whether to break an egg from the big end or the little end.
Yay!
September 1st, 2010 at 12:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283344225 )
Big endian vs Little endian.
September 1st, 2010 at 12:40 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283344831 )
Big-Endian and Little-Endian :)
September 1st, 2010 at 5:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283362984 )
The use of the terms “Big-Endian” and “Little-Endian” in the story is the source of the computing term endianness.
September 1st, 2010 at 8:14 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283372088 )
In the discipline of computer architecture, the terms big-endian and little-endian are used to describe two possible ways of laying out bytes in memory; see Endianness. One of the satirical conflicts in the book is between two religious sects of Lilliputians, some of whom who prefer cracking open their soft-boiled eggs from the little end, while others prefer the big end.
September 1st, 2010 at 8:49 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283374147 )
Big-endian and Little-endian
September 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283374608 )
The “holy war” is between Little-Endian and Big-Endian on “which bit should travel first, the bit from the little end of the
word, or the bit from the big end of the word”.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283376685 )
Endianness.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283377313 )
Endianness, Big-Endian, Little-Endian
September 1st, 2010 at 10:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283379105 )
‘Endianness’ is the term originated from the ‘holy-war’ between Lilliput and Blefuscu over whether to crack open soft-boiled eggs from the little end or the big end.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283384208 )
Endianness
The terms Little-Endians and Big-Endians were introduced in 1980 by Danny Cohen in his paper “On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace”[2]. Cohen’s paper uses Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283388105 )
Endianness.
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283392913 )
Big Endian and small endian. Which side of a egg to break?
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283393006 )
“Endianness”
The terms Little-Endian and Big-Endian.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726), wherein two island nations “Lilliput” and “Blefuscu” argued over whether to crack open their soft-boiled eggs from the little end or the big end.
Endianness is the ordering of individually addressable sub-units. Mixed forms also called “middle-endian” are also possible.
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283399429 )
little-endian and big-endian memory
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283400518 )
The terms Little-Endians and Big-Endians were introduced in 1980 by Danny Cohen in his paper “On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace” Cohen’s paper uses Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726), wherein two religious sects of Lilliputians argued over whether to crack open their soft-boiled eggs from the little end or the big end,as an allegory for the byte order (aka Endianness) issue which became crucial when computers became interconnected with each other by networks.
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283400600 )
endians
lilliput and elfuscu, from gulliver’s travels
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283401944 )
Endianness
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283404632 )
Endianness
LittleEndian vs BigEndian
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283411728 )
Endianness from the dispute on which side of the egg to break among Lilliput’s inhabitants.
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:26 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283412393 )
Big endian ,little endian
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283433822 )
big endian little endian
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283472496 )
Endianess
Quoting Wikipedia
The term big-endian originally comes from Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 1726, Swift described tensions in Lilliput and Blefuscu: whereas royal edict in Lilliput requires cracking open one’s soft-boiled egg at the small end, inhabitants of the rival kingdom of Blefuscu crack theirs at the big end (giving them the moniker Big-endians).The terms little-endian and endianness have a similar intent.
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283506169 )
endianess