This is an interesting idea but probably hard to verify. A tangent is that positional systems were originally invented with least digit first, I believe. The

This is an interesting idea but probably hard to verify. A tangent is that positional systems were originally invented with least digit first, I believe. The Babylonian sexagesimal system was like that as was the Arabic one (where first is on the right). The most significant digit first convention came when right-to left numbers were used in left-to-right systems without reversing them in writing. To this day we read the more common smaller numbers least significant digit first to varying degrees. 16 = six teen, sech zehn 98 = acht und neunzig, achten negentig, ثمانية وتسعون