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Arabic numerals are little endian when writing right-to-left. Like Arabic is written.
by rags2riches 4y ago
Arabic numerals are little endian when writing right-to-left. Like Arabic is written.
- quelsolaar 4y agoYes, you are right!
- mananaysiempre 4y agoIndic scripts are LTR, and so stayed the big-endian numerals when they were borrowed by medieval Islamic mathematicians. Numerals in modern spoken Arabic are big endian (mostly, with an exception for the teens that also exists in English).