Dude: numbers are in NUMERICAL ORDER!
Isn't it convenient that the alphabet is in alphabetical order.
Submitted 1 year ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Numbers have a logical order. The alphabet is effectively random, but we take this random sequence so seriously we take it as a definition.
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Effectively Random” how? Every culture for more than 2,000 years have structured their sequence.
I. We have given letters a hierarchy since early times. Christ said he was the Alpha and Omega, meaning the beginning and end, as those were the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet. This structure was true then and now.
II. The Romans used letters as numbers. I V X L C M D – long before ASCII assigned letters numerical values.
III. If your argument is that we could have chosen to load the beginning with vowels and then the end with letters, well, we didn’t have alphabetical order until we placed the letters in sequence. If we “randomly chose” a different sequence, then that sequence would have been our alphabetical order. The Greek Z is Zeta, not Omega.
Arrakis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mind. Blown.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not phonetically though.
sparky678348@lemm.ee 1 year ago
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I thought it was funny
Jakdracula@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, it’s because of the song. Duh.
moody@lemmings.world 1 year ago
It’s just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with different lyrics.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I blame Big Dictionary
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
c/highthoughts
pedroparamo@lemm.ee [bot] 1 year ago
^
LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk their weed seems pretty good.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is some lightweight smoking thier first joint of ditch weed level musing.