Byte ordering, or boiled egg orientation, endianness is important! Dr Steve Bagley on the computer science topic named after something from an 18th century novel….
The copy of Gulliver’s Travels used in the graphics was found at archive.org and can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/C_Gulliver
The animations of the hex to binary have a classic ‘out by one’ error – it occurred between keyboard and chair during the graphics creation process…. Sean
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