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Re: Where do byte orders come from

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Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:

> On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 12:38:17 PM UTC-6, Radey Shouman wrote:
>  
>> That would require knowing how they write their numbers.  I don't, do you?
>
> As a matter of fact, as a coin collector, yes, I know that old coins from India, 
> Thailand, Burma and so on that have dates written using their versions of the 
> digits from India have the most significant digit on the left.

Thanks, that's interesting.  Seems human language endianess was arrived
at fairly randomly, not unlike the case of computer hardware.

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Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 03:51 -0700
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    Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 04:00 -0700
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      Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 09:23 -0700
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          Re: Where do byte orders come from Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2020-07-24 14:08 -0400
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            Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 01:57 -0700
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                Re: Where do byte orders come from Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-26 09:43 +0100
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          Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-25 02:03 -0700
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              Re: Where do byte orders come from John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-07-25 17:25 +0000
        Re: Where do byte orders come from Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-24 10:32 -0700
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