[barosl]

After reading the answer, I've got some questions:

1. I like little-endian systems because adding or subtracting small numbers is easier in those systems byte-wise. Would the same benefit apply to human languages?

2. Why did the Arabic numeral system choose big-endian in the first place? It could easily have been little-endian, even including zeroes, likes 001 meaning one hundred. Who made the choice?

[sdefresne]

Arabic is written left to right, so aren't the number little-endian in their Arabic form ?

[majewsky]

I was going to correct your mistake, but then I understood that you just wrote "right to left" right-to-left.

[sdefresne]

Ooops. Yes, I meant right to left. Not enough karma to edit and fix my mistake. Thank you.

[Koshkin]

Not sure about Arabic, but in Hebrew numbers are written from left to right.

[tomNth]

In arabic numerals , but in hebrew numerals (a alphabetic numeral system) its right to left.

[amelius]

I prefer big-endian systems because you more quickly get an idea about the magnitude of a number as the bits come in.