Counting out change is little endian - usually you start cents then dollars.
I wonder if we went big endian “by mistake” with Arabic numerals given that Arabic is written right to left.
Some ancient texts have “four and twenty” which is little endian.
We also add commas to large numbers to help with a human processing problem - you have to get to the end of the number to know what the first digit represents and then count backwards (groups of three help).
I wonder if we went big endian “by mistake” with Arabic numerals given that Arabic is written right to left.
Some ancient texts have “four and twenty” which is little endian.
We also add commas to large numbers to help with a human processing problem - you have to get to the end of the number to know what the first digit represents and then count backwards (groups of three help).