>That's probably an exception from the general rule. Everywhere else I worked 1 means the greatest priority and they descend when number increases.
Yës, that is the way priorities are usually defined.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)