What is the endianness of MIPS architecture?

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The MIPS architecture is primarily a little-endian architecture, meaning that it stores the least significant byte at the lowest memory address. When storing the hexadecimal value 0xABCD9876, it will be represented in memory as 76 98 CD AB in little-endian format. This means the binary representation will be stored as 0110 0111 1000 1001 1101 1100 1011 1010 across four bytes. Additionally, MIPS supports bi-endian configurations, allowing for flexibility in endianness settings.

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I wrote all this and for some reason it logged me off and I lost my post. So rather than rewrite everything I'm just going to get straight to the point. I'm trying to learn mips and I know it's a little endian architecture. If i want to store 0xABCD9876 which is 10101011110011011001100001110110 in binary, will it look like this:

0110 0111 1000 1001 1101 1100 1011 1010

If not what will it look like? Thank you
 
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