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Little endian notation is somewhat mixed endian itself, because it contains 3 numbers, each number by itself is big endian, but the 3 numbers are arranged in little endian fashion amongst each other.
D/m/y is little endian. In a base 10,000 system there would be 3 symbols, each unique.
The Human Palindrome will be born tomorrow and die on 2121-12-12 at the age of 101. And in true palindromic fashion, his life will start and end with diapers.
Any responsible parent will call him Bob or Anna, of course. Taking surnames into account is going to be a bit harder. Here's a good resource for anyone becoming a parent today: https://parentinghealthybabies.com/palindrome-names/
Only way to be sure is to name all 360,000 of them palindromically...
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The house number is smaller than the street, but the street comes first. If we put the house number first, then we'd get a logical order.
You're thinking of street and house number as two things. Germans don't. Or at least I don't. Your approach makes as much sense as picking movie titles with numbers at the end apart into two things.
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Oof, that list is terrible. Natan is listed twice, and there’s at least one name that isn’t a palindrome. The only two names that really work from that list is Anna and Hannah. Nobody should name their kid Bob in 2020, it’s not a «young» name yet. Thr older Bobs need to die off before it’s an acceptable kid’s name. As for the rest of those names, I refuse to acknowledge them as names. They’re more like onomatopoeia.
Ada, Ava, Eve and Viv are all names I’ve seen in the wild and would consider reasonable names too. There’s also nothing wrong with Bob, despite what you seem to think. So together with Anna and Hannah, that’s 7 names.
Today is my son's due date! I've been hoping for months that he'll be here on time for this palindromic birthday, but nothing yet...
Eh man, can’t do much about these things. I was born on 02/02, married on 05/05, first child on 07/07, but the second child “broke the chain” with a 21/11... ️
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I love the term "middle endianness" and how clearly it highlights how nuts the American date notation is. EDIT: fwiw, in my native language, most numbers from 100 and 1000 are pronounced middle endian, so I'm not complaining.
Just as with inches, feet, and pounds the system works better in practical real world conversation than it does in more formal language. “When’s your birthday? 10/23. When are we going to Ma’s? 11/19 thru 11/29. When do you go back into therapy? 12/8.”
Similarly the Sexagesimal notation, in common use (clocks etc), points to an generalization that would have been much better than the French system, where we rely on primes for increasing places in the number. Eg 4321(primal) would be 4x5 + 3x3 + 2x2 +1x1 = 34(decimal). Historically we may be stuck with counting on our fingers and toes though, through eternity.
The more "logical" Metric system which is not an extension of the "practical" Imperial system is inevitably bastardized and Creoled in everyday usage. Eg one buys a "Pound Plus" of Chocolate from Trader Joe's (500 grams!). Why is the choice is not one (or fice) Hectogram(s) vs one Kilogram i do not know... except that Hectogram is so obtuse/abstruse i had to google it! Maybe someone in a Metric country can correct me, if they think i am wrong using words like abstruse. One inevitably finds doubling and halving in everyday commerce.
We would do a lot better to extend to tripling, quintupling etc, like the Babylonians did, than directly to the (insane, in my opinion :-) French 10x Metric system.
Not that i am an American chauvinist. Eg i think the American middle endianistic dating system is off the wall weird, and i go out of my way to circumvent it.
20200220 yy/mm/dd
02202020 mm/dd/yy
20022020 dd/mm/yy
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If you were aware of the mind-boggling diversity of human language you would not make claims like “typical languages do X so one that doesn’t is idiosyncratic” (unless backed by serious research spanning the thousands of known languages). You would also not think experience with a few languages from the Indo-European family is generalizable. Standard Chinese for example uses Y/M/D and I’m sure you can find many examp…
I think the only major language using the M, D, Y spoken order are American-influenced English and Ewe (Ghana etc). Several countries write a short data as M/D/Y, but these mostly have a significant American influence.
It wasn't "almost every country in the world doesn't use m/d/y", even if you would have liked it to be.
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You're thinking of street and house number as two things. Germans don't. Or at least I don't. Your approach makes as much sense as picking movie titles with numbers at the end apart into two things.
Street and house number are certainly two different things. It's more like series of movies (Die Hard 1, Die Hard 2, etc. are different movies but part of the same series. In the same way, a street could be seen as a series of houses or addresses. So the smallest unit is the house, then the street.
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The typical English-influenced way to do it starts with the number,the most specific thing. 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA (The postcode is least-specific first: SW is South West London, 1 is the district nearest Central London, and the 2 would usually be a few streets and the AA 5-10 houses, but this is a unique code for an address that gets a lot of post.)
Funnily enough, with the addition of the newest element to that format — the postcode — to the end, this format also becomes less "logical", postcode being very specific. Of course that's arguable, as postcode shouldn't really be considered a component of-, rather an alternative to- other sections of the address.