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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (27 children)

As a non-programmer, why does it do this? Sorting by leftmost digit seems super dumb.

[โ€“] nero 3 points 1 year ago

It sorts them based on their unicode character, not the actual numbers. 1 is U+0031, 2 is U+0032, etc.

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