That's only partly true. Of the three such languages that I'm familiar with, they all write the numbers so that higher order digits are to the left of lower order digits but not all of them read in left to right order. One of them reads the numbers right to left i.e. units tens hundreds order.
mkk On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:14:12 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the cultures that read from right to left number the pages that way >> also. > >The cultures that read from right to left still read Arabic numerals (not to >be confused with the numerals in the Arabic script) from left to right. > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
