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AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> writes:

> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:34:15 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:

>> So I don't see how "in Ada bits are counted [also] right to left".

> You omitted the essential part of my post: LE.
> "That's why LE machines count from right to left (bytes, that is);
> that's why in Ada bits are counted also right to left so that we count
> contiguously past byte boundaries."

Sorry for misreading that. To me, the way the sentence is written 'LE'
governs just 'machines'. I'd perhaps say 'that's why in Ada *running on
LE machines* bits are counted' ...

> Now it's quite common to put the more significant digits left to the
> less significant ones. Chinese do it (in their pictographic digits 一二
> 三四五六七八九十); also arabs do it (in their digits ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠),
> although they write from right to left (they also say the most
> significant part first, except for the numbers 11 to 99, they say them
> like we do in German, 25 = خمسة وعشرين, hamsa wa ashrin, fünf und
> zwanzig, five plus twenty).

My old rugby football coach called the 25-yard line "five and twenty".