Byte order (retitled and silly)

[James Johnson]

> 	Consider the following problem.  You have an array of 4 byte
> integers.  If you sort the array numerically you get one result.  If
> you regard the bytes as characters and sort them lexicographically on
> a little endian machine you get a different result.

WOW! You mean big endian machines are optimized to sort lists of
four-letter-words ? :-)
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