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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    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.