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		jwong_ on April 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011) Imagine having your contact list sorted by some geometric function run on each letter of the A-Z alphabet.

trw999 on April 12, 2019 [–]

That would be marginally better than memorizing ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Is there anything inherent about the letter A that makes it get sorted in front of the letter Z?

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