>>> Anyway, you still work from the LSB first when doing anything with them.
>>
>> When was the last time *you* did long-division? :-P
> 
> Hehe, not since doing it with polynomials at university.
> 
> But since then I was messing about with writing an unlimited precision 
> integer program, implementing the +,- and * by hand.  I dunno, it just 
> seemed the obvious thing to do to put the LSB of the number in array 
> position zero, putting the MSB in position zero would have made things 
> quite awkward.

Well, clearly I'm not going to win this one because I am apparently the 
*only* person here who thinks this is a very, very bad idea. But I 
reserve the right to continue to be irked when I have to take my 
beautiful code and litter it with statements to turn the numbers 
backwards at the start, and then turn them back round the right way 
again afterwards, just because somebody somewhere decided to design 
their cryptosystem to follow Intel's broken design. :-P

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