XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:08:15 GMT, Wayne Throop   
    wrote in  in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > After all, *most* mixed-radix systems still   
   > write/communicate things in bigendian fashion.  Three   
   > pounds seven ounces.  Five hours and 34 minutes.  Eight   
   > months and ten days.  Folks don't normally go about doing   
   > things in littlendian order (or worse, like the US date   
   > formats, chaotic-endian order), unless it's to express an   
   > archaism like "four and twenty blackbirds".  And even   
   > that's limited, since, eg, "four score and seven years".   
      
   Or because it’s the little end that is more useful, and the   
   big end is therefore often omitted; this covers both 23   
   August (2013) and August 23, (2013,) and the latter actually   
   then conforms to the big-endian pattern.   
      
   Or because you’re not speaking English: dreihundert zwei und   
   vierzig.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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