The little endian breaks their egg on the smaller side. The big endian breaks their egg on the larger side. It works similarly to an egg. But the fluids are memory instead.
- Networks require big endian
- Memory is usually represented in little endian
Little endian
- The LSB is stored first (leftmost)
- The MSB is stored last (rightmost)
Often preferred because it makes Binary Addition, Binary Subtraction and address reading easier.
