Regardless of the origins, < is just a more natural operation than >. I kind of mean that both figuratively and literally: the most "natural" numbers are the "natural numbers", which follow 1 < 2 < 3... and not 1 > 2 > 3...
I see what you mean. But if we consider endianness and reading direction arbitrary conventions does it still hold? Maybe it does, since in your latter example the reading direction is inverted in any case and endianness applies only intra-number.
Yeah, I was just talking about the mathematical less-than operator. How we choose to represent anything computationally or visually is orthogonal to it.
