Big Endian because strings and numbers are stored in the same order. memcmp works on both strings and arbitrary-precision unsigned numbers. Big Endian is also natural for BCD because the characters are stored in the same order they are printed.
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Anonymous2012-04-10 1:08
big endian because reading backwards is retarded
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Anonymous2012-04-10 1:14
Little because storing a number smaller than 256 in a word-sized cell and reading it as a byte will give you the original number.
Big endian is an atavism. It looks more ``natural'' to bigoted white people who were blinded by their Christian ``tradition'' into believing that the most significant digit is on the left end.