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- From: jgj@ssd.csd.harris.com (Jeff Jackson)
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- Subject: Re: big + little endian (was: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS ..)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:00:52
- Organization: I would rather be windsurfing.
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- In-reply-to: carlton@scws1.harvard.edu's message of 7 Jan 93 17:19:24
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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.
- >
- > Some rather old writings were written boustrophedon, but I wouldn't
- > present it as the norm.
-
- Order of the line wouldn't have mattered. They didn't use positional
- notation. Instead (I'm using roman leters here for convenience) they
- use letters for numbers thusly:
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- a=1 j=10 s=100
- b=2 k=20 t
- c=3 l=30 u
- d=4 m=40 v
- e=5 n=50 w
- f=6 o=60 x
- g=7 p=70 y
- h=8 q=80 z
- i=9 r=90 %=900
-
- What they did for bigger numbers I don't know.
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