RE: arabic number in bidi algorithm

From: Birger Langkjer (birger.langkjer@image.dk)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 19:23:30 EST


Den man, 01 nov 1999 skrev du:
> Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>
> >The difference I mentioned above is that in (modern) Arabic the last two
> digits
> (tens and ones) are enunciated ones first, then tens. So "1987" is
> verbalized as
> "one thousand and nine hundred and seven and eighty".
>
> Not only Arabic. Most Germanic languages also.

Danish: nittenhundredesyvogfirs = nineteenhundrethsevenandeighty

or alternatively:
ettusindnihundredesyvogfirs = onethousandninehundredsevenandeighty

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