Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

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Assume you have a byte-addressable machine that uses 32-bit integers and you are storing the hex value 1234 at address 0:
a) Show how this is stored on a big endian machine.
b) Show how this is stored on a little endian machine.
c) If you wanted to increase the hex value to 123456, which byte assignment would be more efficient, big or little endian Explain your answer.