Recent messages have discussed which digit is written first, but
it seems to me that as those messages were worded, there was an
implicit LTR assumption that the leftmost digit is "first".

We technical people need to be careful to be aware of situations
in which numbers (usually binary or hexadecimal) might have their
most-significant digit on the right, instead of the left, as
perceived by humans. One way this has spilled over into Unicode is
byte ordering.

I've enjoyed reading the recent bumper crop of messages.

Nicholas Bodley
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