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SubjectRe: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
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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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