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> From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
> Copyright: Copyright 2008 James Cloos
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> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:04:23 -0500
> 
> |> The numbers are from left to right
> 
> Another way to wor what he says is that the (so-called) Arabic digits
> are big-endian when read LTR and little-endian when read RTL, and that
> regardless of how one actually thinks of them the representation of
> integers is inherently little-endian.

Endianness has nothing to do with LTR and RTL languages.

And you are wrong saying that numbers are little-endian when read RTL,
because many RTL languages read number LTR.