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Arabian numerals are derived from Indian scripts, which are written left to right, yet the order of digits is already the same we have today.
by filmor 2y ago
Arabian numerals are derived from Indian scripts, which are written left to right, yet the order of digits is already the same we have today.
- pezezin 2y agoNot to mention that in most (all?) spoken languages numbers are big-endian.
- Veserv 2y agoFrom what I have seen, low numbers in Arabic are spoken/written little-endian (twenty five is five and twenty). Apparently German as well. The internet claims that historically large numbers in Arabic were also written out (as in when using number words rather than numerals) little-endian.
- School-Cotton 2y agoNumbers below 100 in German are little-endian. 85 is "fünfundachtzig" (five-and-eighty).