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   From: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   In article <1377303118@sheol.org>, Wayne Throop    
   wrote:   
   >: David DeLaney    
      
   Please note that you trimmed my authorship of the following and left   
   in someone else's.   
      
   >: 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.   
   >   
   >Trying to minimize the utility by referencing historical accident   
   >and implying that the choice of endian-ness is arbitrary is a   
   >fairly common ploy   
      
   Another common ploy is putting words and implications into someone   
   else's mouth, and worse, smearing it as a "ploy".   
      
   I neither addressed, nor implied, nor intended to address, nor   
   intended to imply, anything about the utility of any form of   
   endianness.  I did not even think of the issue until your article.   
   I was merely pointing out an anecdote of historical arithmetical /   
   lexicographic trivia, in the hopes that other people might find it as   
   fascinating as I did.   
      
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   Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com   
      
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