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In article <1iinltINNi0l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
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>In article <1iig7aINNtc@spim.mti.sgi.com> jackc@vermont.mti.sgi.com (Jack Choquette) writes:
>>For reasons explained in previous posts, humans (who read left to right)
>Well, now, some of them do and some of them don't.  How about Big Endian
>for the West, and Little Endian for the East (starting at Israel and
>the Arab nations and going to Japan)

This has been almost beaten to death, but there are many Eastern
civilizations which had both left-to-right reading and Big Endian
numerations, including the Hindu writings which were the first use
of decimal notation with the same characters in all places.

Also, when Hebrew texts use the traditional representation of numbers
by Hebrew letters, it is definitely Big Endian.  To my knowledge, this
seems to be universal; Little Endian occurs when a system of writing 
in one direction directly adopts a system of numeration going in the
other direction.
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