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After reading the answer, I've got some questions: 1. I like little-endian systems because adding or subtracting small numbers is easier in those systems byte-
by barosl 5y ago
After reading the answer, I've got some questions:
1. I like little-endian systems because adding or subtracting small numbers is easier in those systems byte-wise. Would the same benefit apply to human languages?
2. Why did the Arabic numeral system choose big-endian in the first place? It could easily have been little-endian, even including zeroes, likes 001 meaning one hundred. Who made the choice?
- sdefresne 5y agoArabic is written left to right, so aren't the number little-endian in their Arabic form ?
- Koshkin 5y agoNot sure about Arabic, but in Hebrew numbers are written from left to right.
- tomNth 5y agoIn arabic numerals , but in hebrew numerals (a alphabetic numeral system) its right to left.
- majewsky 5y agoI was going to correct your mistake, but then I understood that you just wrote "right to left" right-to-left.
- sdefresne 5y agoOoops. Yes, I meant right to left. Not enough karma to edit and fix my mistake. Thank you.
- amelius 5y agoI prefer big-endian systems because you more quickly get an idea about the magnitude of a number as the bits come in.