While 0 has no value and is often placed after 9 on keyboards, you asked about digits in a base and not numbers. This becomes clear if you describe the various bases.
Binary is 0-1
Octal is 0-7
Decimal is 0-9
Hexadecimal is 0-F
If you sort zero at the end, you’d need to spell out the digits or label them all as 1-0, which isn’t very descriptive.
Mind you, “zero-first ordering of digits” is not a fundamental rule, since the glyphs only have a need to be sorted when they stand for a numerical value . And if you used a phrase like “first X digits” without noting a range the omission would be a composition error.
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While 0 has no value and is often placed after 9 on keyboards, you asked about digits in a base and not numbers. This becomes clear if you describe the various bases.
If you sort zero at the end, you’d need to spell out the digits or label them all as 1-0, which isn’t very descriptive.
Mind you, “zero-first ordering of digits” is not a fundamental rule, since the glyphs only have a need to be sorted when they stand for a numerical value . And if you used a phrase like “first X digits” without noting a range the omission would be a composition error.