C Programming - Floating Point Issues - Discussion

Why is the concept of little or big endian followed? Why can't people stick on to 1 particular method following a standard what difference does it make?

What is the use of using these two kind of methods?

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I had a doubt if I had to store 01020304 in little endian, according to ur discription it is 04030201 but why it could not be 40302010 ?

"Little Endian" means that the lower-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the high-order byte at the highest address. For example, a 4 byte Integer

ABCD

will be arranged in memory as follows:
Base Address+0 Byte0
Base Address+1 Byte1
Base Address+2 Byte2
Base Address+3 Byte3

Intel processors (those used in PC's) use "Little Endian" byte order.
"Big Endian" means that the high-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the low-order byte at the highest address. The same 4 byte integer would be stored as:

Base Address+0 Byte3
Base Address+1 Byte2
Base Address+2 Byte1
Base Address+3 Byte0

Motorola processors (those used in Mac's) use "Big Endian" byte order.