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- From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis)
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.153844.4982@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Nov14.213444.25253@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov19.163325.662@cine88.cineca.it>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:38:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.163325.662@cine88.cineca.it>
- bassi@cs.unibo.it (Bruno Bassi) writes:
- >For this particular case, I think that a horizontal representation, with
- >"left" and "right" arrows, would do much better. I find it natural to think at
- >the "right" direction as the direction where things increase (probably
- >because texts grow rightwards). And, if you spatialise numbers, you get
- >
- > 0 1 2 3 4 . . .
- >
- >which also works.
- >
- >Any comments?
- Yes. If you're writing in Arabic or Hebrew (among others), texts grow to
- the left.
-
- This raises another question in my mind: anyone know how these cultures
- handle mathematical expressions? I know the west got its numbering system
- from the Arabs, but what about the way we write it?
-
- --Rick.
-