I had a wierd thought the other day, but I lack the grounding to really explore it. Normally, we start with the number 0 as the starting point, with successive integers regarded as increasing in size. Even negative numbers are increasingly negative, comparison of positive and negative regards the number closer to zero as 'smaller. What if that were reversed? What if we defined zero as the largest number in a number system, with successor integers as increasingly small?
Is there anything interesting about this thought, or is it just a distinction without meaningful difference?