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   demofox (demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 22:58:17 JST demofox

   my god... sorting the numbers 0-99 in german makes a low discrepancy sequence. wtf.
   Thanks for the link @andrewhelmer47
   https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1adux6w/the_numbers_099_sorted_alphabetically_in/

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 22:59:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @demofox
     > We have a Alphabet, so we use the full alphabet.
     
     Yup, that seems very german indeed.
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     demofox (demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 23:02:35 JST demofox

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     @andrewhelmer47 The explanation is interesting too.
     paraphrased "the least significant digits are said first, like "one and twenty" instead of "twenty one", so it's like Hammersley, but in base 10."

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 23:08:39 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @demofox @andrewhelmer47 Now that makes me wonder what would happen if the sorting would be done backwards.
     Like english would start off like this:

     $ rev top10.txt | sort | rev | tr '\n' ' ' three nine one five ten seven zero two four eight six

     (note: I know this isn't how endianess works which is roughly what's happening with German).