alt Hacker News> Little endian is logical and won, big endian is backwards and lost for good reason.
No, BE is logical, but LE is efficient (for machines).
> Little endian is logical and won, big endian is backwards and lost for good reason.
No, BE is logical, but LE is efficient (for machines).
No, BE is intuitive for humans who write digits with the highest power on the left.
LE is logical which is also why it is more efficient and more intuitive for humans once they get past “how we write numbers with a pencil”.