Re: RE: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi

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well.. actually the 1.234 in hebrew is
1 + 234/1000.


On Nov 4, 2008 5:15pm, Bourgneuf Francois  
<francois.bourgneuf@groupe-mma.fr> wrote:
> I just wanted to point that "english numbers" (ie arabic) numbers are in  
fact right to left.
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> We're used to use them so we think they are written left to right but  
it's wrong. Even though you don't
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> realize it, you read numbers from the right to the left.
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> I disagree with what's written in the Wikipedia article.
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> For example, in the number 1.234 how can you tell 1 represents one  
thousand ? Because there are
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> three digits on the right. You have to read the right part of the number  
first.
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> Other example, which of these calculations is the easiest to solve :
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> 12345
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> +23
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> Or
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> 12345
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> + 23
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> Regards
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> Bour9
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> > -----Message d'origine-----
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> > De :
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> > help-gnu-emacs-bounces+francois.bourgneuf=groupe-mma.fr@gnu.or
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> > [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+francois.bourgneuf=groupe-mma.f
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> > r@gnu.org] De la part de Jonathan Groll
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> > Envoyé : mardi 4 novembre 2008 15:56
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> > À : help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> > Objet : Re: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi
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> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:06:09PM +0100, Bourgneuf Francois wrote:
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> > >Just a precision, in arabic and hebrew both text and numbers
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> > are written right to left.
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> > >In western languages text is written left to right and
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> > numbers right to left.
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> > >You can't tell the value of the left digit of a number if
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> > you havent read how many digit are at his right.
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> > >We solve additions from the right to the left.
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> > In all the Hebrew I've seen numbers were left to right:
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_punctuation#Math
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> > Regards,
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> > Jonathan
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