> Here's what I'm talking about: > > "Move the part numbers that begin with a numerical character to the > end of the list after the part numbers that begin with an alpha > character." > > I'm just wondering how widespread this usage is. Are these terms just > in my documents in my company, and I should make the correction, or do > technical writers the world over use "alpha characters" to refer to > letters and "numerical characters" to refer to numbers?
I'd use numbers and letters. It's so much clearer. Others have mentioned alphanumerics as including both letters and numbers, but doesn't it also include punctuation? Mike Wickham
