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"but our writing of numbers comes from Arabic" Not India?
by ttybird 5y ago
"but our writing of numbers comes from Arabic"
Not India?
- ncmncm 5y agoYes, India. Where they were writing left to right. So the Persians picked them up and put them in their right-to-left text, so little-endian for them, and then Europeans picked them up from the Persians, all as-is. Little-endian would make typesetting columns of figures simpler, but that ship sailed long ago.