From: Raymond Mercier (rm459@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 15 2009 - 15:15:59 CDT
Petr Tomasek writes
> Because arabic numerals ARE written left-to-right. (Historically this is
> probably due to the fact, that in arabic the the numbers were read
> starting from the least significant digit, e.g. "three and twenty and
> hundert"
> for 123...)
I rather think that this LtoR order is owed simply to the Indian origin of
this notation.
Raymond Mercier
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