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Complete answers or none please,thank you: Suppose we need to transfer data between various machines which...

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Suppose we need to transfer data between various machines which are a mixture of big endian and little endian architectures. To avoid the conversion problem of the the endian-ness of the number, we decide to simply transfer numbers using their character representations.

For example, for the number 1026, instead of worrying about whether to send the big-endian 32 bit stream of 0x00000080 or the little endian 0x80000000, we simply send four bytes: the 8 bit codes for the '1' character, the '0' character, the '2' character, and then the '6' character.

a)What could be some disadvantages of this approach?

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