Re: Arabic Numbers in the unidode bi-directioanl Algorithm

From: Raymond Mercier (rm459@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 15 2009 - 15:15:59 CDT

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    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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