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Article #73963Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 02:06
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 02:06
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>>>>> "I" == Industrial Poet <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes: I> "See, some people write their numbers with the millions on the left I> and the ones on the right. Other people write their numbers with I> the millions on the right and the ones on the left. We've got this I> great idea... if these people talk to each other, they should I> decide on just one way of writing numbers so I> that they can understand each other. Can we have a patent?" In fact, Arabic, normally written from right to left, writes multi-digit numbers from left to right, in the same style as English, etc.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9a4c815047ed049b X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-16 00:07:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication Message-ID: <1991Jul15Mo220641.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> Date: 16 Jul 91 02:06:48 GMT References: <9107131607.AA14833@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <oND551w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (daniel.jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 15 Jul 91 09: 31:47 GMT