Charles R Harris wrote:
> In particular, my machine is little endian, meaning that the low order
> bits are stored first. It seems that Hex always prints with the high
> order bits first, so on my machine the bits are in the reverse order of
> the hex display.

Of course. Your int64's are in the same byte order as your float64's. The hex
representation is not supposed to be the sequence of nybbles in memory, but the
integer in human base-16 notation, which is always big-endian.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco
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