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- From: fy@lucid.com (Frank Yellin)
- Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
- In-Reply-To: rabin@CS.Yale.Edu's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:20:15 GMT
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 11:19:25
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- In article <RABIN.93Jan7132015@nuthatch.CS.Yale.Edu> rabin@CS.Yale.Edu (Dan
- Rabin) writes:
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- > It's interesting to note that the digital notation passed through
- > Arabic-speaking culture on its way from its Hindu origins to its
- > adoption by Europeans. Since Sanskrit is written from left to right,
- > this probably means that the perceived endian-ness has flipped twice.
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- Of course, how were numbers done in ancient Greek. It was written in
- boustrophedon: the lines alternated left-to-right and right-to-left.
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- I wonder if numbers reversed from line to line, too.
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- -- Frank Yellin
- fy@lucid.com
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