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   "Gene Wirchenko"  wrote in message   
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   > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:08:15 GMT, throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >>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".   
   >   
   >     Exception: addresses:   
   >          123 456 W. 7th St.   
   >          Someplace, Here  CODE   
   >          Country   
   > Some even get into middle-endian:   
   >          456 W. 7th St., #123   
   >          Someplace, Here  CODE   
   >          Country   
      
   And the absolutely classic difference seen with personal names, with   
   some societys using firstname lastname and others lastname firstname.   
      
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