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A comment on Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf].

Re:Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf] by cjensen on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:20PM (#9208877)
Is the typo in the first sentence (the letters in "to" are reversed) a joking reference to the the topic "text SEQUENCE"?
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Re:Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf] by gavinpc on Monday March 16, 2015 @12:29AM (#9209870)
Good question. It was asked (but never answered) last time this was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828207

Personally, I think it must be a joke. Besides the fact that it would have been noticed and corrected by now, it's just not a "typo" kind of error (i.e. a common transposition).

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