middle-endian /adj./ Not big-endian or
little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2
or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI
problem. Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American
mm/dd/yy style of writing dates (Europeans write dd/mm/yy).
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