Re: Binary and XML serialization of types

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 14-02-05 15:03 , AdaMagica wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:35:37 AM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> English, German, Russian (other European languages too?) numerals < 20 are
>> all LE. E.g. fifteen, fünfzig, пятнадцать = 5 + 10. It seems that numerals
>> start with LE and later switch to BE (when LE become inconceivable).
>> Germans endure LE up to 99, other peoples are less patient... (:-))
> 
> Italien, French 11 to 16 onze, douze, ..., seize; 17 dixsept
> Spanish 11 .. 15 once, doce, ... quince; 16 dieciséis

Finnish 11 = "yksi/toista" where I use the slash to show how it is
composed of two words, "yksi" = one and "toista" = "of the second".
Meaning "one of the second set of ten". "Kaksi/toista" is 12 and so on
for 13 .. 19, then modern Finnish switches to big-endian from 20
onwards. In older text the little-endian system is sometimes continued
so that 21 can be written as "yksi/kolmatta", "one of the third set of ten".

But multiples of 10 are always in big-endian, for example 20 =
"kaksi/kymmentä" = "two tens". I assume this is because there was
originally no word for zero, so one could not express 20 as "zero of the
third set of ten".

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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