How about the elves? I have seen rumours that they write numbers with the units digit to the left.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jill Ramonsky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:49 PM Subject: RE: Hexadecimal digits? Sorry, but I have to correct you. You state below that "[my] argument doesn't work". This is slightly confusing because I haven't proposed any arguments, beyond that I support the inclusion into Unicode of hex digits which are distinct from the letters A to Z. I can only assume you are suggesting that the "natural sort" algorithm works in decimal but not in hex. If so, I should mention that (1) it wasn't me who invented the natural sort algorithm, so I can't take credit for that in any radix, and (2) there is absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work in radix sixteen just as it would in radix ten. For example 77 and 100 get sorted in the order (77, 100), not (100, 77) in EVERY radix in which the digits 0, 1 and 7 exist. This is true in base eight. It is true in base ten. It is true in base sixteen. It is even true in base 68431. In fact, the only things the natural sort algorithim need to know are (a) which characters represent digits and which ones don't, and (b) what is the numerical value of each such digit. [ ... ]
