Determining combination of bits

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> Wow. I always thought "least significant bit" meant, in the common
> big-endian bit notation, the last bit - with emphasis on the bit word,
> i.e. either 1 or 0. Have I got a real mess in my head (probably not, I
> just googled for definitions and the onse I checked are consistent with
> what I wrote,
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22least+significant+bit%22) or
> is the meaning of the phrase poorly defined?

No, seems to be well defined - I was the confused one. I have to admit that
I was somewhat impressed by that neat trick that I simply extended the
meaning of LSB in my faulty wet-ware.

I've done my share of assembler coding, but never happened to have used or
seen that one. 

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch