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In article <1993Jan8.100549.28792@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>In article <C0JE18.8Mp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>
>>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
>
>To my knowledge too.  At least, I can confirm that Egyptian, Babylonian,
>Greek, Roman and Mayan numbers were big-endian.

Well I wasn't talking just about numbers. Endian-ness also applies to 
text strings stored in computer words.  If you go Big-Endian then
text strings read left to right when you print out the characters in a
word from left to right.  If you go Little-Endian then you need to
print a core dump in hex or octal left to right and in characters
right to left.
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