XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   In article <1oz50mwv8ha4o.mf977hvn5nnl.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
   >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.   
   ...   
   >Or because you're not speaking English: dreihundert zwei und   
   >vierzig.   
      
   Or because you're not writing English.  Arabic numerals in ARABIC   
   are little-endian.  They were adopted in the West with much the same   
   physical appearance and order, and because Western scripts were   
   left-to-right, they became big-endian.   
      
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   Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com   
      
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