Re: Big-Endian vs. Little-Endian

From: David Brown (david_at_no.westcontrol.spam.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:22:09 +0200

"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
news:2p1758Ffmo5gU1@uni-berlin.de...
> This is drifting wildly OT, of course, but what the heck.
>
> Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>
> > And in western languages (English as well) numbers were read
> > little-endian (from "right to left" -- LSD first) until
> > recently.
>
> What do you mean, "until recently"? English still does it that way
> from 13 to 19. In German (and most related languages, AFAIK) that's
> how it is done all the way up to 99, and is quite unlikely to change,

It's changing in Norwegian - the "four and twenty" ordering is gradually
being replaced by "twenty four" ordering, which has been taught in schools
for a few decades now.

> ever. And just to make it more confusing, it's done that way only for
> tens and ones, i.e. 524 is "fuenfhundertvierundzwanzig", i.e. "five
> hundred four and twenty". And let's not even get started about
> French, where what they say when they mean 97 translates, literally,
> as "four twenty ten seven". Now you try and install some sense in
> terms of endianness into *that* ;-)
>

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