Assume v. Presume

[trog]

Don't remember those. I can't remember what brand of petrol was sold at the garages where my dad worked (and my uncle owned). Shell? I do know there were collections of plastic coins (can't remember what they depicted)

I do not remember plastic coins but I did collect these metal ones from ESSO.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SdMAAOSwo6ljORoZ/s-l1600.jpg

Edit The search triggered further memories, I collected these coins also and I had the key ring

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e1/e3/9b/e1e39b59d04dcf57d7186e4cd17638bb.jpg

 

[EEPhil]

I remember collecting the cars and space. Couldn't find them when I last moved house, so they've gone. Thought they were plastic. Perhaps an odd metal.

 

[Black Hole]

They are sorted lexicographically

Lexicographically? Lexicons only deal with alphabetic characters. We could say the sorting is alphanumeric, but that does not account for special characters.

I struggled to find a more correct word (I did check), and still do. As it seems do you.
I cribbed the following from here: https://nitishhsinghhh.medium.com/u...phic-order-in-programming-with-c-6d283dce5233

In mathematics, the lexicographic order extends the concept of alphabetical order to sequences of ordered symbols or elements of a totally ordered set.

Lexicographic order is an ordering of elements based on their alphabetical or numerical order. It is similar to the way words are organized in a dictionary. In lexicographic order, the comparison of elements is done character by character or digit by digit, starting from the leftmost position.

In programming, lexicographic order is determined based on the ASCII or Unicode values of the characters. The order of characters in the ASCII table is well-defined, with lowercase letters having higher values than uppercase letters, and digits being ordered sequentially.

Interesting. So that particular institution has adopted the term "lexicographic" for that purpose. I wonder how widespread it is?!

"Lexicography" is the process of compiling dictionaries, so I think this is a poor choice.

 

[EEPhil]

Interesting. So that particular institution has adopted the term "lexicographic" for that purpose. I wonder how widespread it is?!

The search I just did shows that term is very common. Trying to find a definition in an online (free) British English dictionary revealed no result!