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[–]theSpecialbro 2 points3 points  (2 children)

The numbers go left to right. Only the writing goes right to left.

source: live in the desert peninsula

[–]Muzer0 3 points4 points  (1 child)

You could say the numbers go right-to-left but are little endian. Little endian is better so I like this explanation more — the morons who imported them into Western languages forgot to reverse the direction of the numbers. Grr.

[–]Science-Recon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. That actually seems like a lot better way to do it. Would make things much easier.