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byte

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

8 bits; also called an octet. The highest bit (value 128) of a byte is numbered bit 7; the lowest bit (value 1) is numbered bit 0.
ordering of bytes for multi-byte data values within a PNG file or PNG datastream. PNG uses network byte order.
byte order

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

ordering of bytes for multi-byte data values within a PNG file or PNG datastream . PNG uses network byte order .
network byte order

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

byte order in which the most significant byte comes first, then the less significant bytes in descending order of significance ( MSB LSB for two-byte integers, MSB B2 B1 LSB for four-byte integers).
PNG four-byte signed integer

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

a four-byte signed integer limited to the range -(2 31 -1) to 2 31 -1. The restriction is imposed in order to accommodate languages that have difficulty with the value -2 31 .
PNG four-byte unsigned integer

From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

a four-byte unsigned integer limited to the range 0 to 2 31 -1. The restriction is imposed in order to accommodate languages that have difficulty with unsigned four-byte values.
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