[Haskell-cafe] Re: Endianess

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Wed May 14 17:06:03 EDT 2008


Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

> Of course, we write down 243, realize the mistake and rewrite the
> number. :-) Actually, many pupils have problems with the mixed order
> of digits and give solutions like this one in examinations:
>    8 * 8 = 46
>   because they write the digits as they speak them. That's one of the 
> reasons the mentioned assocation was founded for.
>
Funny enough you never hear stories about pupils writing

7 + 7 = 41

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