Whoever invented English number words, then, had a very sick sense of humour. Why doesn't the word for "one" start with "a", the word for "two" with "b", etc.,?
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>English and several other languages have dozens of collations. Compare telephone books, library catalogs, book indexes (sic), and other sorted data. Knuth vol. 3 Sorting and Searching gives an example of a set of library sorting rules that runs to more than a page, and suggests programming it as an exercise. ;-) Among the rules are to spell out numbers.
>For example,
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>1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four)
>1066 and all that (Ten Sixty Six)
>3001 (Three Thousand One)
>2050 (Twenty Fifty)
>2010 (Twenty Ten)
>2001, A Space Odyssey (Two Thousand One)
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>Bell Labs invented a whole programming language, Snobol, to deal with telephone listing conversions, matches, and sorts. Many phone books sort Mc- and Mac- together, others one after the other but separate from other names.
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>Edward Cherlin
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> Behalf Of Michael (michka) Kaplan
>> Sent: Mon, September 10, 2001 8:36 AM
>> From: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
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>> > Michael, that isn't the point. There is a problem even
>> when you stick to
>> one
>> > language.
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>> By that time, many langauges may have TWO collations, since
>> users have been
>> expecting something else for the last few decades?
>>
>> MichKa
>>
>> Michael Kaplan
>> Trigeminal Software, Inc.
>> http://www.trigeminal.com/
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