From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 01:55:50 CDT
At 01:29 -0500 2005-06-22, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>Right, but that's my point - this notion of "natural" ordering is
>unnatural for Arabic. It is quite "natural" to type (and speak)
>numbers in either order- least or most significant digit first.
In Arabic counting, I believe I have heard, the least significant
digit is given first.
>In fact you could argue that historically least significant digit
>first is more "natural". My question is, is this also true for
>Hebrew?
It doesn't matter, does it?
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