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Is the Hindu and English ordering the same? If so, it's gone through two endian changes from India to Europe!
by rleigh 8y ago
Is the Hindu and English ordering the same? If so, it's gone through two endian changes from India to Europe!
- improbable22 8y agoYes, everyone writes the tens to the left of the ones on the page. Most of their names (at least in Hindi) are recognisable from enlish/latin/greek. Looks like that's not the case in Arabic, unsurprisingly really... unless 7 = سَبْعَة = sabʿä = sabbath counts, but I suspect we got that from semitic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers_in_various_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers_in_various_lan...