| From: | "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Shachar Shemesh" <shachar(at)shemesh(dot)biz>, "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: | 2007-05-23 01:06:21 |
| Message-ID: | b35603930705221806k1271a46bh214784e49472f06c@mail.gmail.com |
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On 5/23/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> 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,
Same for German and Slovene.
"Ein tausend zwei hundert vier und dreissig."
"Tisoch dvesto shtiri in trideset." (sorry, can't produce the s and c
with the hacek
trivially here, replaced it with a sh and ch respectively ... ).
Cheers,
Andrej
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