Dude: numbers are in NUMERICAL ORDER!
Isn't it convenient that the alphabet is in alphabetical order.
Submitted 11 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Mind. Blown.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not phonetically though.
sparky678348@lemm.ee 11 months ago
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I thought it was funny
Jakdracula@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, it’s because of the song. Duh.
moody@lemmings.world 11 months ago
It’s just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with different lyrics.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I blame Big Dictionary
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
c/highthoughts
pedroparamo@lemm.ee [bot] 11 months ago
^
LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk their weed seems pretty good.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This is some lightweight smoking thier first joint of ditch weed level musing.