Blame the people who failed to localize the right-to-left convention when arabic numerals were adopted. It's one of those things like pi vs. tau or jacobin weig

Blame the people who failed to localize the right-to-left convention when arabic numerals were adopted. It's one of those things like pi vs. tau or jacobin weights and measurements vs. planck units. Tradition isn't always correct. John von Neumann understood that when he designed modern architecture and muh hex dump is not an argument.