Hi folks:
I am trying to grapple with the address conversion issues between unlike
media (ie ethernet and tokenring). I have seen in this occassion and
elsewhere people/books referring to the most and the least significant bits.
My question here is what really are these bits. The word "signifcant", at
least as I understand it, describes the importance of a noun/pronoun it
qualifies (either in relation to some other noun/pronoun or by itself). It
seems the usage in the context of hardware addresses seem to refer to the
position of a bit in a byte , for example, in 1000 0000 the most significant
bit is 1 and the least significant bit is 0. It looks like this stands true
wether the address is represented canonically or non-canonically. Am I right
here in assuming it?
Can somebody comment on it. Thanks for your help.
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