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Re: Motion 46 -- Right to left intervals



On 2013-07-22 09:22:58 -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Are numbers written right to left?  For example, is pi written 95141.3 ?

AFAIK, (decimal) numbers are written left-to-right to avoid ambiguity.
But what happens to numbers with an exponent or to hex-numbers?
It seems that there may be problems, just like with MAC addresses,
as mentioned here:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/

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