Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 19:01

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rather off the subject...
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
...
> In fact, Arabic, normally written from right to left, writes
> multi-digit numbers from left to right, in the same style as English,
> etc.

Arabic numbers are naturally written from right to left, writing from
least significant to most significant digit.  That's the more natural way
to write them--think about how you do arithmetic by hand, working from the
low end.  Our writing left-to-right is an adaptation to our overall con-
vention.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Simpler is better.

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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication
Summary: trivia
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Date: 16 Jul 91 19:01:42 GMT
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