Fahrenheit and Celsius are just two units of measure on the same temperature scale, running in the same direction. Big and little endian are more fundamentally

Fahrenheit and Celsius are just two units of measure on the same temperature scale, running in the same direction. Big and little endian are more fundamentally different. Ken's article mentions that the Datapoint 2200 used shift-register memory that read out one bit at a time, along with a one-bit arithmetic unit: > Another consequence of shift-register memory was that the Datapoint 2200 was a serial computer, operating on one bit at a time as the shift-register memory provided it, using a 1-bit ALU. To handle arithmetic operations, the ALU needed to start with the lowest bit so it could process carries. Likewise, a 16-bit value (such as a jump target) needed to start with the lowest bit. This resulted in a little-endian architecture, with the low byte first. The little-endian architecture has remained in Intel processors to the present. Now consider how you add or subtract, or multiply or divide two numbers by hand, where you're working with one decimal place at a time. Do you start from the big end of the numbers, or the little end? And if the numbers aren't the same length, where do you align them? At the little end.