Re: Ping: dawn, some mvl questions
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:06:51 +0300
Message-ID: <e53odp$bi1$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ucantrade.com.NOTHERE> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 May 2006 02:07:58 +0200, mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >Say we have a list.
> >
> >We don't, at this time, know wether the order
> >in the list is significant or not (so excluding
> >situations where the order is alphabetic, size
> >or however evidently content-based).
>
> Be careful about "evidently". A list might be in alphabetical
> order, not because that was intended, but merely as an artefact. My
> full name is "Eugene Michael Wirchenko". Note that my names are in
> alphabetical order, but this signifies nothing.
But we can discover this rule and we can use it to recover the original
order.
Is this particular order logical or physical ?
Received on Thu May 25 2006 - 10:06:51 CEST