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From a footnote of TFA:

> You may try to fix the confusion by viewing memory with its low addresses at the top and high addresses at the bottom. While this would indeed make stack movement more natural, it would also mean that increasing some memory address would take it down in the graphical representation, which is probably even more counter-intuitive.

Ultimately, my approach is to avoid directional terms such as 'top' and 'bottom' or 'high' and 'low' in the first place; they only cause confusion. Prefer 'greater' or 'smaller' addresses.

(Similarly 'left' and 'right' when applied to bits, which gets especially confusing if endianness is involved; prefer 'more significant' and 'less significant'.)



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