if it was the 16th of June of 1949, and you were to say the date, you wouldn’t be pronouncing the digits that make the date in the logical order {1, 6, 7, 1, 9, 4, 9}, but you’d actually be going through them in this order instead: {7, 6, 1, 9, 1, 4, 9}. say it loud, you’ll see. i know, americans are crazy!