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In article <markg.79.726169747@county.lmt.mn.org> markg@county.lmt.mn.org (Mark Gilbert) writes:
>I have identified the root of this whole big-endian/little-endian debate.  
>The conflict is is between text and numbers.  We read left to right.  But, 
>if you were to number the digits of an integer, you would do it right to 
>left.  The one's digit would be 0, the ten's digit, 1, etc.
>
>This should never have been the case.  We adopted our number system from the 
>Arabs, and the Arabs read right to left.  For them, the direction of reading 
>text and numbers is CONSISTENT.  The whole problem arose because we failed 
>to reverse the numbering system when we borrowed it from the Arabs.
>
>I propose that we now correct this historical oversight.  Let us write 
>numbers least significant digit first.  The bang symbol can be used to 
>replace the decimal point, in order to distinguish little-endian numbers 
>from big-endian.  The integer six hundred and fifty four should now be 
>written !456.  Sixteen dollars and twenty five cents is now $ 52!61.
						No -         ^^^^^^^^
						Should be     52!61$
						read "25 cents, 16 dollars"
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