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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM ('Thelonious' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Saturn V Launcher (WAS: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer)
Message-ID: <5160010@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 89 17:17:40 GMT
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/ hpfcdc:comp.lang.misc / jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen) / 10:05 pm  Jan 20, 1989 /
>In article <1102@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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>>There does not seem to be any support from "natural" languages for the
>>little-endian approach.

>Or better yet, German: Zwei und Vierzig  (42!)

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German doesn't count, how about

	Drei Hundert Zwei und Vierzig (342)

German reads like the aforementioned "VAX" core dump!

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Marc Sabatella
HP Colorado Language Lab
marc%hpfcrt@hplabs.hp.com