The term "alphanumeric characters" avoids the slang alpha and also addresses numbers as individual characters, rather than things like 1.8956132 and 218,555,123 and 1x10^6...all of which are numbers.
;-) Rene L. Stephenson ----- Original Message ---- From: "Shuttleworth, Roger" <[email protected]> The term "alphanumeric" covers both alphabetical and numeric characters. -----Original Message----- From:Deirdre Reagan Sent: July 23, 2008 3:38 PM To: Framer's List Subject: OT: question about usage Hi all: Those two phrases sound overly complicated to me -- "numerical characters" sounds like a complicated way of saying "numbers" and ditto "alpha characters" for "letters." (And isn't alpha just slang for alphabetical? They aren't talking about the Greek character.)
