A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads “Happy 17th Birthday”

  • ArrowMax@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    Even in decimal, the most-significant digit is to the left. Binary in text form is no exception to this.

    Unless we are talking little-endian, which would start with the least-significant bit.

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      13 hours ago

      Anyone who opens their egg on the small end deserves to be removed from our society.