Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)

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From: Frank Yellin
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 11:19

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In article <RABIN.93Jan7132015@nuthatch.CS.Yale.Edu> rabin@CS.Yale.Edu (Dan
Rabin) writes: 

>  It's interesting to note that the digital notation passed through
>  Arabic-speaking culture on its way from its Hindu origins to its
>  adoption by Europeans.  Since Sanskrit is written from left to right,
>  this probably means that the perceived endian-ness has flipped twice.

Of course, how were numbers done in ancient Greek.  It was written in
boustrophedon:  the lines alternated left-to-right and right-to-left.

I wonder if numbers reversed from line to line, too.

-- Frank Yellin
   fy@lucid.com

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