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Doing Math in Different Language
11-21-2015, 06:19 AM
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RE: Doing Math in Different Language
(11-20-2015 06:39 PM)Julián Miranda (Spain) Wrote:  It would be interesting if someone with a mother tonge which is written from right to left like arabic or hebrew could explain how they write a technical paper with formulas. You are writting right to left, switch to left to right for formulas and continue right to left?
For the original post of this thread I agree with Didier or ggauny, we calculate in our mother tongue. I remember when I started studying English, reading simple sentences with numbers in it, like an address, was a problem because I read the numbers in spanish. It took an aditional effort to "translate" numbers, as Didier said, 8 was "ocho" (in Spanish) for me. The additional effort was to convert 8 in eight.
Very interesting also the "feeling" Alberto explains in the previous post.

The feeling may be the same as a Spaniard adding two multidigit numbers starting from the right & proceeding leftwards who then has to divide two multidigit numbers & starts from the left proceeding rightwards?
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