> How are Arabic numbers written in a paragraph of Arabic ... text? =I believe > they are little endian (right to left) so that, as viewed by a westerner, they appear big endian, just the same as we are accustomed to seeing them.
Of course, some of the numerals are quite different (the number 5 comes to mind) but, in general, with a little imagination, it's easily decypherable. === > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:33:10 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and > PoOps editions levels? > To: [email protected] > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:25:11 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote: > > > >It could be a lot worse. Hardware engineers number the bits in a byte in > >the opposite manner that we software techies do; i.e., bit 0 (hardware) = > >bit 7 (software), etc. I think hardware people must consider bit 0, the > >rightmost bit in their world view, to represent two to the zero-th power, so > >I understand why they number the bits from right to left. There are also > >many languages that are written, and thus must be read, from right to left, > >and some languages anciently were even written both ways on the same stone > >document using the boustrophedon method described once by John Gilmore. > > > "Left" and "right" may be not very meaningful here. A colleague once > asked me, > > "Does this computer store bits left-to-right or right-to-left?" > > "Point of view. If I look at the indicator lights on the front panel, > it appears to be left-to-right; if I walk around and open the back > panel, it appears right-to-left. If I stand it on its side as a tower..." > > "You know what I mean!" > > Actually, I didn't. Does he mean how they appear in the engineering > drawings? How they're conventionally numbered? Other? > > I once looked at a VAX (little-endian) dump. The ASCII and hex > appeared side-by-side, in opposite reading directions. > > How are Arabic numbers written in a paragraph of Arabic (or Hebrew) > text? (This may depend on behavior of specific word processors.) > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
