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This problem doesn't seem to be about trust at all, it seems to be about incomplete sharing of information. It seems weird to me to say Carla doesn't completely trust Bob's account if she is 100% sure he isn't lying.

The sensitivity of the test - that aliens actually abduct people, given someone is telling her aliens abducted him - is 2.5% since she doesn't really know his drug habits and hasn't ruled out there's a LARP she's missing the context for.

I would describe this not as Carla not trusting Bob, but as her not having all of Bob's information - Bob cou... (read more)

I had the same confusion when I first heard those names. It's called little-endian because "you start with the little end", and the term comes from an analogy to Gulliver

You're mixing up big-endian and little-endian. Big-endian is the notation used in English: twelve is 12 in big-endian and 21 in little-endian. But yes, 123.456 in big-endian would be 654.321 and with a decimal point, you couldn't parse little-endian numbers in the way described by lsusr.

Katapayadi does seem to be little endian, but the examples I found on Wikipedia of old Indian numerals and their predecessor, Brahmi numerals, seem to be big-endian.