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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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[-] ArrowMax@feddit.org 26 points 1 day 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.

[-] sfbing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

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