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Re: Where do byte orders come from

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On So 26 Jul 2020 at 16:22, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I think it has to do with right-hand/left-hand bias. We haven’t even talked
> about scripts written from top to bottom.

And then there is also boustrophedon (βουστροφηδόν) where the direction
changes after each line.

'Andreas

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