Christopher Maynard
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bug 11861
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Comment # 7
on bug 11861
from Christopher Maynard
The bit labelled 0 is the high order or most significant bit.
A reading of RFC 791 Appendix B should help clear up any confusion.
>From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#page-39:
Whenever an octet represents a numeric quantity the left most bit in the
diagram is the high order or most significant bit. That is, the bit
labeled 0 is the most significant bit. For example, the following
diagram represents the value 170 (decimal).
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Significance of Bits
Figure 11.
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