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From: nol2105@dsacg2.UUCP (Robert E. Zabloudil)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian" - first usage for computer
Summary: other languages
Keywords: dump little-endian strings
Message-ID: <250@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 18:29:20 GMT
References: <170@microsoft.UUCP> <4008@hubcap.UUCP> <482@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> <1916@ardent.UUCP>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH
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In article <1916@ardent.UUCP>, mac@mrk.ardent.com (Michael McNamara) writes:
> In article <1102@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> |There does not seem to be any support from "natural" languages for the
> |little-endian approach.
> 	Four and twenty black birds, baked in a pie....

In German:  24 == vierundzwnzig
In Dutch it's expressed similarly

Also compare English thirteen, fourteen, ... nineteen.