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by DavidVoid 77 days ago
How do you read a number like 17? "seventeen", small endian.

Language is messy, some more than others [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#Numerals

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"Diecisiete", still big endian. (you could make an argument for numbers between 11 and 15 though)

Yeah, I know there are exceptions, but on average most human languages are big endian.