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"Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
writes:

> So bit 3 of a 32-bit word is a different bit than that of a byte?

Yes. On big-endian hardware.

A 32-bit big-endian integer with bit 3 set would be 16#10_00_00_00#.

(You've moved the goalposts a bit; we were talking about "the third
bit"!)