Re:Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
by krn on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:23PM
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> Won't that give you the letters in alphabetical order, which may not be correct?
But that's what "lexicographical" means?
> In mathematics, the lexicographical order is a generalization of the way words are alphabetically ordered based on the alphabetical order of their component letters.
> This generalization consists primarily in defining a total order on the sequences (often called strings in computer science) of elements of a finite totally ordered set, often called an alphabet.
But that's what "lexicographical" means?
> In mathematics, the lexicographical order is a generalization of the way words are alphabetically ordered based on the alphabetical order of their component letters.
> This generalization consists primarily in defining a total order on the sequences (often called strings in computer science) of elements of a finite totally ordered set, often called an alphabet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographical_order