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# Little-Endian
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Little-endian byte ordering is widely used throughout the Bitcoin Cash protocol, particularly for integers.
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In little-endian byte ordering, the least significant byte is first, following the second-least-significant, and so on.
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This is often the opposite of what people consider "natural" for numbers, despite being fairly common in computer hardware.
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For example, the value 5,000, when represented in little-endian format, would be the byte 0x88 followed by 0x13, while 5,001 would be the byte 0x89 followed by 0x13.
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Contrast this with [big-endian](/protocol/misc/endian/big).
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For information, see [Endianness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness).
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