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From: bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck)
Subject: Re: Arabic numbering system
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:38:42 GMT
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Blair P. Houghton (blair@world.std.com) wrote:
: In article <42pcq0$cka@news.ios.com> aishdas@haven.ios.com (Micha Berger) writes:
: >In the Biblical middle east, numbers were spoken lowest digit first.
: >At least, numbers under 1000 were.  (As the Bible says "seven and twenty
: >and a hundred".)

: The "Biblical middle east" of the modern European Bible
: is expressed through translation, not transliteration.

In this case the translation is mostly correct. Numbers in the Bible, in
the Hebrew original as well, were spoken least significant digit first.
Uri

