Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage. | From | Nix <> | Date | 24 Oct 1998 22:32:04 +0000 |
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Hans Lermen <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de> writes:
> right, and to note: the people who invented our number scheme, the Arabs,
Indians. (Well, some of those Hindus living in the Indian subcontinent at the time.) It went from there to the Middle East, and from there to Europe - and the Europeans of the time assumed that the system was Arabic. (Disclaimer: IANAHistorian.)
> are writing from R->L. So the 'natural' endianess is the little one;-)
At the time they wrote from L->R. Big-endian. ;)
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