Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage. | Date | 24 Oct 1998 22:19:28 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9810242257170.1131-100000@aaricia> By author: Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov@rip.ens-cachan.fr> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Hans Lermen wrote: > > > right, and to note: the people who invented our number scheme, the Arabs, > > are writing from R->L. So the 'natural' endianess is the little one;-) > > However, they also read them R->L, so the most significant digits are > still read first. I guess that's big-endian... (NB : the european-"arab" > digit glyphs were quite altered from the original arab models during the > late Medieval period) >
No, no; (real) Arabic digits are written the same way we do (MSD to the left), but are obviously read R->L, i.e. LSD first...
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