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Now I'm curious, are there any cultures on earth that are fully little-endian? I know RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic put the least-sig-digit on the right

by Pxtl 5y ago

Now I'm curious, are there any cultures on earth that are fully little-endian? I know RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic put the least-sig-digit on the right and are therefore read as little-endian, but afaik when they read them aloud they follow the Germanic approach of "Three hundreds and four and twenty", not starting from the least-sig-digit. Also, Unicode does this crazy thing where it switches typing direction to LTR when you start Latin numerals even if you're in an RTL language, I think. I worked on an i18n project and the behavior of Unicode with RTL languages confused the hell out of me.

Adverblessly 5y ago
Byblical Hebrew has numbers in "two and twenty" format (including things like "fifty and hundred"), but in modern Hebrew they are pronounced similarly to English, including special exceptions for 11-19 and using Million->Billion (Milliard allowed as well)->Trillion rather than Million->Milliard->Billion->Billiard; And not including the "thirty five hundred" oddity, in Hebrew that's "Three thousands five hundred".