On 5/23/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> > As an amusing side note, I have heard a claim that the only reason we
> > need endianity at all is because the Europeans didn't understand that
> > Arabic is written from right to left. In Arabic you read "17" as "seven
> > and ten", which means that it is already little endian. Just one
> > request, please don't quote this story without also mentioning that this
> > story is wrong, and that 1234 is said, in Arabic, as "one thousand two
> > hundred four and thirty".
> For the record, dutch works like too,
Same for German and Slovene.
"Ein tausend zwei hundert vier und dreissig."
"Tisoch dvesto shtiri in trideset." (sorry, can't produce the s and c
with the hacek
trivially here, replaced it with a sh and ch respectively ... ).
Cheers,
Andrej
