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## Endian
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There are 2 endian's for grouping bytes, which are little and big endian.
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**Little Endian** groups bytes by the least significant byte at the lowest address.
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**Big Endian** stores the most significant byte at the lowest address, it is meant for human readability.
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An endian determines the order in which bytes are organized to represent large numbers.
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There are only 2 ways of ordering, which are little and big endian.
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**Little Endian (LE)** groups bytes by the least significant byte at the lowest address.
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**Big Endian (BE)** stores the most significant byte at the lowest address, it is meant for human readability.

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