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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • yes yes I get what you’re saying but it’s still odd. Didn’t humans do this differently in the old analog days? I’m sure any human when working with a real paper archive in front of him, order 5 A before 5.5 A. Perhaps it has something to do with viewing 5 as 5.0 and 5.00, since they are mathematically equivalent, and come before 5.5. Although humans would also be inconsistent because they would order 5.9 before 5.11 if the context were to be chapters going from 5.9 -> 5.10 -> 5.11. But if these papers were to represent values, humans would order 5.9 AFTER 5.11. And computers obviously don’t make exceptions based on context like humans do.

    edit: if I understand correctly, I’d be cleaner if spaces come first in character ranking of ANY character. Perhaps that’d make it more human readable.