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From: stubbs@ncr-sd.UUCP (Jan Stubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Byte Order: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
Message-ID: <1249@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 21:10:03 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.1249
Posted: Tue Dec  2 21:10:03 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 23:59:32 EST
Reply-To: stubbs@ncr-sd.UUCP (0000-Jan Stubbs)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <399@viper.UUCP> dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>I asked a friend of mine, who teaches Arabic, how that language
>treats numbers.  As you know, we got our system of numbers from
>the arabs.
>
>I was told that a number, such as "123", would be read and written
>from left to right, just as is the other elements of the language.
>I.e. it would show up in an Arabic text as "xxx xxxx xxx 123 xxxx",
>the whole of which would be read from the right.  Also the number
>would be translated into words as "three and twenty and one hundred"
>instead of "One hundred and twenty three."  

NCR's Arabic editing terminals move the text to the left as you type, until
you begin entering numerals; numerals move to the right as you type.
So apparently they are accustomed to writing a number left to right, even thoughthey say them right to left??? Anybody want to do the termcaps for this
terminal?


Jan Stubbs    ....sdcsvax!ncr-sd!stubbs
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