From 6b79f9260bab123e4007eb4eeccc01eb09a33e76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gunter Labes Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:19:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Typo fix (#44) --- docs/What-is-Endianness.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/What-is-Endianness.rst b/docs/What-is-Endianness.rst index 9be9a8d..c22466a 100644 --- a/docs/What-is-Endianness.rst +++ b/docs/What-is-Endianness.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Endianness [#Endianness]_, at least as far as computing is concerned, is the ord Comic by `Oliver Widder `_ Released under `Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) `_. -Entomology +Etymology ********** The Computer Science terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian were introduced by Danny Cohen [#CohenDanny]_ in 1980. The key term *endian* has its roots in the novel Gulliver’s Travels [#GulliversTravels]_ by Jonathan Swift [#SwiftJonathan]_ where within a war occurs between two factions who are fighting over which end of a boiled egg should be opened for eating. The big end or the little end. Unsurprisingly, the same said book was the inspiration for the naming of the `Gulliver `_ library.