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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by samatman on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#22859567)
Oh, by 'unordered' you mean that the three words could be in any order and still mean the same thing?

Okay but that's a strange requirement. A 'big burger house' isn't a 'big house burger', after all.

I had read 'unordered' as 'the collation order of the words has no connection to the ordinal rank of the underlying byte', for some reason

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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by IanCal on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:04PM (#22861136)
I'm just jumping in where I saw a misunderstanding :) I think that's what they mean by unordered as that makes sense with the numbers (I think).

To some degree I agree, but there are also a lot of cases where different orders aren't distinguishable easily. "Light bright red" and "bright light red" is the best I can come up with quickly but I'm sure you get the idea.

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