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by dotancohen 339 days ago
And the Arabs actually say the numbers from right to left. It's "one and fifty", not "fifty one".
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It's also written right to left. And in general, natural language is "little-endian": Less significant information tends to be mentioned first.[1]

1: https://www.thoughtco.com/given-before-new-principle-linguis...