Bit numbering: Difference between revisions

The expressions ''most significant bit first'' and ''least significant bit at last'' are indications on the ordering of the sequence of the bits in the bytes sent over a wire in a [[serial transmission]] protocol or in a stream (e.g. an audio stream).

 

 

''Least significant bit first'' means that the [[least significant bit]] will arrive first: hence e.g. the same hexadecimal number <code>0x12</code>, again <code>00010010</code> in binary representation, will arrive as the (reversed) sequence <code>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0</code>.