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Article #12758Re: Byte Order: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
From: Jan Stubbs
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 02:10
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 02:10
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In article <399@viper.UUCP> dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer) writes: >I asked a friend of mine, who teaches Arabic, how that language >treats numbers. As you know, we got our system of numbers from >the arabs. > >I was told that a number, such as "123", would be read and written >from left to right, just as is the other elements of the language. >I.e. it would show up in an Arabic text as "xxx xxxx xxx 123 xxxx", >the whole of which would be read from the right. Also the number >would be translated into words as "three and twenty and one hundred" >instead of "One hundred and twenty three." NCR's Arabic editing terminals move the text to the left as you type, until you begin entering numerals; numerals move to the right as you type. So apparently they are accustomed to writing a number left to right, even thoughthey say them right to left??? Anybody want to do the termcaps for this terminal? Jan Stubbs ....sdcsvax!ncr-sd!stubbs 619 485-3052 NCR Corporation 16550 W. Bernardo Drive MS4010 San Diego, CA. 92127
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!stubbs From: stubbs@ncr-sd.UUCP (Jan Stubbs) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte Order: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace Message-ID: <1249@ncr-sd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 21:10:03 EST Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.1249 Posted: Tue Dec 2 21:10:03 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 23:59:32 EST Reply-To: stubbs@ncr-sd.UUCP (0000-Jan Stubbs) Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego Lines: 23