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Re:Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) by jwong_ on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:50PM (#19641815)
Imagine having your contact list sorted by some geometric function run on each letter of the A-Z alphabet.
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Re:Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) by trw999 on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:28AM (#19645074)
That would be marginally better than memorizing ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Is there anything inherent about the letter A that makes it get sorted in front of the letter Z?
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