RE: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi

["Bourgneuf Francois" <francois.bourgneuf@groupe-mma.fr>]

I just wanted to point that "english numbers" (i.e. arabic) numbers are in fact right to left.
We're used to use them so we think they are written left to right but it's wrong. Even though you don't
realize it, you read numbers from the right to the left.

I disagree with what's written in the Wikipedia article.
For example, in the number 1.234 how can you tell 1 represents one thousand ? Because there are
three digits on the right. You have to read the right part of the number first.

Other example, which of these calculations is the easiest to solve :

  12345
+23

Or

 12345
+     23

Regards
Bour9  

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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:
> >Just a precision, in arabic and hebrew both text and numbers 
> are written right to left.
> >In western languages text is written left to right and 
> numbers right to left.
> >You can't tell the value of the left digit of a number if 
> you havent read how many digit are at his right.
> >We solve additions from the right to the left.
> > 
> 
> In all the Hebrew I've seen numbers were left to right:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_punctuation#Math
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan
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