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6 Data Representation

  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