Ian Kelly wrote: > I've never seen any version of Arabic >numerals that was little-endian.
Actually Arabic numerals in their original form *were* little-endian. Written right-to-left, like the rest of the Arabic script. When they were adopted by Europeans, the same visual order was maintained: least-significant digit on the right. The visual order was maintained even when numbers were mixed with left-to-right text. Now everyone thinks it's a big-endian numeral system. Worse, people think that big-endian is somehow more correct or more natural than little-endian, in general. -zefram
