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		cubefox 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to... Arguably Arabic numbers must always be read right-to-left, even in English, because the least significant digits can be read in order, while the value of the most significant digit depends on the number of less significant digits to the right. So in Hebrew the general reading direction actually fits Arabic numbers better.

dotancohen 8 months ago [–]

And the Arabs actually say the numbers from right to left. It's "one and fifty", not "fifty one".

cubefox 8 months ago | [–]

It's also written right to left. And in general, natural language is "little-endian": Less significant information tends to be mentioned first.[1]

1: https://www.thoughtco.com/given-before-new-principle-linguis...

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