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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"

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

It's not. Numbers are arranged (both binary and base 10) with the most significant digit on the left.

Whether you read the number from left to right or right to left is irrelevant and you can choose whichever one you want.

But it is completely consistent with base 10 (normal numbers).