@maemachinebroke Little endian makes sense to me because each byte will have the same significance, i.e. have the same place-value, regardless how large the integer is.

for example, in little endian the place-value of the first byte is always 1, and the second has a place-value of 2^8, and next 2^16 and so on.

In big endian, the place-value of the first byte is 2^24 for a 32 bit integer, and 2^8 for a 16 bit integer, and 2^0 for a 8 bit