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Primary and extension data shall be
represented in one of the formats
described in this section. FITS data shall be interpreted to
be a byte stream. Bytes are in order
of decreasing significance.
The byte that includes the sign bit
shall be first, and the byte
that has the ones bit shall be last.
5/13/1999