I thought the whole idea with the naming was that the convention whereby “twelve is written 12” the symbol at the end “2″ is the one symbolising the littlest bit, so I thought it was called “little endian” for that reason.
I now I have a lot of questions about how the names were chosen (to wikipedia!). It seems really backwards.
I had the same confusion when I first heard those names. It’s called little-endian because “you start with the little end”, and the term comes from an analogy to Gulliver
You are right.
I thought the whole idea with the naming was that the convention whereby “twelve is written 12” the symbol at the end “2″ is the one symbolising the littlest bit, so I thought it was called “little endian” for that reason.
I now I have a lot of questions about how the names were chosen (to wikipedia!). It seems really backwards.
I had the same confusion when I first heard those names. It’s called little-endian because “you start with the little end”, and the term comes from an analogy to Gulliver