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Meaning in this case essentially means context. You have a communications channel, it delivers to you four 32-bit integers, what do they represent? Positional coordinates? One pixel in RGBA? In CMYK? IPv4 port/address 4-tuple with zero-padded 16-bit ports? A single IPv6 address? Big endian or little endian?

The bits are the same, the meaning is different.





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