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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not just someone. It's the default when numbers are in text strings, they are treated as text, not as numerical values.
To account for numbers in text strings in any text listing system, requires quite a bit of extra work when programming it.
So the joke is that computers are pretty dumb in this regard, and they need a lot of help to do it right.