Gregg wrote:
>To cut a long story short, it makes perfect sense to construe
Arabic numeric forms as right-to-left; they just happen to put
the least significant digit first.
That occurred to me some time ago, but I abandoned the idea
when I learned that native writers actually write the most
significant digit first, as a few contributors have mentioned
recently.
Peter
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