| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Shachar Shemesh <shachar(at)shemesh(dot)biz> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, oledb-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [Oledb-dev] double precision error with pg linux server, but not with windows pg server |
| Date: | 2007-05-22 16:56:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20070522165610.GB32658@svana.org |
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 05:14:54PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> As an amusing side note, I have heard a claim that the only reason we
> need endianity at all is because the Europeans didn't understand that
> Arabic is written from right to left. In Arabic you read "17" as "seven
> and ten", which means that it is already little endian. Just one
> request, please don't quote this story without also mentioning that this
> story is wrong, and that 1234 is said, in Arabic, as "one thousand two
> hundred four and thirty".
For the record, dutch works like too, which leads to a fascinating way
of reading phone numbers. 345678 becomes: four and thirty, six and
fifty, eight and seventy.
Takes a while to get used to that...
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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