/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.6363368]

Alright, I'm not really a scientist or from /sci/, I'm just visiting now, and I realize this is a stupid question with no real answer. But I'm making a list like:

1=A 2=B 3=C 4=D 5=E 6=F 7=G 8=H 9=I.

But I'm including 0 and I don't know if I should make it "J" or some might confuse that for "10". So should I use another letter or? And out of morbid curiosity and autism I'd like to see what the scientists think. So I made a poll to let scientists decide. For fun. Because why not.

http://strawpoll.me/1178848

I apologize in advance.

[Anonymous No.6363516]

The real answer is "It depends on why you are making this list."

[Anonymous No.6363677]

>>6363516
It's nothing really.
It's just some things accept letters only.
So I want to replace numbers with letters in that case.

[Anonymous No.6363684]

>>6363677
use A for zero instead

0-index master race

[Anonymous No.6363717]

>>6363684
This.

[Anonymous No.6363916]

>>6363368
Z if you're dealing with legacy shit

[Anonymous No.6364063]

>>6363368
Why use the Decimal system ?
Use the Dozenal system, it's way sexier.

[Anonymous No.6364411]

>>6363684
>>6363717
well i was thinking that but wanted to get others opinions.
the poll says "z" so far.

>>6363916
i guess but thinking about it the alphabetical order would be a.

>>6364063
well shoot why not use the hex system?
i actually thought of that...
thing it it's kind of confusing
and like most people i don't know anything besides decimal so well.

i think "a = 0" would be best too,
since if you put it in alphabetical order and numerical order,
it would be 0 to 9 and A to J.
still considering it.

thanks for the help so far everyone

[Anonymous No.6364414]

>>6364411
Samefag here. Part 2 of the post:

Well this is interesting.
When I order the folders in windows alphabetically they go:


-
~
+
±
00
0
0F
01
1
9
a
aa
ab
b
z


So 0F comes before 01 so alphabetical order wouldn't
if you used a numbering system
that mixed traiditonal letter and number representations.

But if I open it in another program it gives me:


+
-
0
00
01
0F
1
9
a
aa
ab
b
z
~
±


Then it does seem to put it in the wanted alphanumeric order.
The same program likes to screw up my number order
if i don't pad numbers with 0's as a prefix like "01", "001", etc.
I guess they and everything uses different ordering systems.
So there's no real definite order...
or windows has special rules to make them easier for normal people.
And I don't know if I can change windows to order it the way I want.
So it might have to still be either numbers or letters by themselves.

Thanks for the help so far everyone.

[Anonymous No.6364424]

0 is a space, obviously.

Gawd, I thought you guys were supposed to be smart.

[Anonymous No.6364426]

>>6364424
I said I don't know and I'm not from here!

And space's aren't allowed in pretty much all "account" names,
which may be what I'm using this for.

And thank you.

[Anonymous No.6364432]

>>6364426
>And space's aren't allowed in pretty much all "account" names, which may be what I'm using this for.
underscore then?

and yw :-)

[Anonymous No.6364433]

>>6364432
Underscore isn't allowed in a lot of screen names either.
Heck sometimes numbers aren't even allowed.
Explaining why I'm thinking about this stupid crap.
It's usually letters and numbers only or letters only period
nowadays unfortunately.

ty :-)

[Anonymous No.6364720]

>>6363368
..LMNOP..

how about O

[Anonymous No.6365085]

>>6364720
well o's on the poll so. it will be considered.

thanks!

[Anonymous No.6365105]

>>6363368
The only way to keep your code (or whatever you're doing) from being proprietary is to index from 0.

Let 0 be A, then increase a number and increase a letter. That's the simpliest way to do it, and causes the least amount of problems.

If you do it any other way, you need to introduce a proprietary exception for 0.

[Anonymous No.6365120]

>>6365105
I understand. I'm pretty sure I'll go with A=0 at this point. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.6365124]

I made a new poll here asking which number system to use.

http://strawpoll.me/1182089

Tho it's pretty pointless now since I'm pretty sure "A=0".

Still I wish I could edit the OP
or have the ability to delete my thread at any time like the good old days.

I don't this post is worthy of a new thread,
So I'll just include an image and hope the post gets a little more attention.

[Anonymous No.6365129]

>>6365124
>http://strawpoll.me/1182089
why do you need this, op?
maybe we can help decide if we knew what it was for.

[Anonymous No.6365136]

>>6365129
Well, the original question was:

http://strawpoll.me/1182087

>which number to letter system should i use?
>keep in mind that what i had in mind for this were things like accounts
>that usually only accept letters and numbers and no other characters.
>and sometimes only accept letters and not numbers at all.

but i thought the question was too long so i changed it.

[Anonymous No.6365139]

>>6365136
Then A-J is the easiest.

[Anonymous No.6365144]

>>6365129
>if we knew what it was for.
this

[Anonymous No.6365157]

>>6365139
Ok then. Thanks.

Also I was considering also maybe trying to use a letter number system
since those are less likely to be taken than a name followed by numbers.
But again I have my accounts separated into folders on my comp;
and when I try to organize it in alphabetical order or "by name"
then it orders like "01" comes after "0F" so it doesn't work.
And there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to get it to order correctly;
and I kind of need them to be in the right order
since I arrange folders by name.
I guess installing a gnu+linux distribution really would be the solution...

[Anonymous No.6365288]

>>6365144
To tell you the truth this can be used for many things in the future I guess.

But immediately I'm making folders with different things in them.
I also need to make accounts and upload things from those folders.
I need to upload them to multiple sites and some names might be taken.
So I thought using letters instead of numbers would solve this problem.
So names are less likely to be taken; and I still have things in order.

I kind of don't like saying the reason
because then usually people think it's more stupid than the question
then focus more on the reason than the question.
Hopefully I don't regret this
since you can't delete posts after some time now.

I kind of don't like saying the reason
because then usually people think it's more stupid than the question
then focus more on the reason than the question.
Or focus too much on why it is being done, not how to do it.
Hopefully I don't regret this
since you can't delete posts after some time now.

[Anonymous No.6365291]

>>6365144
To tell you the truth this can be used for many things in the future I guess.

But immediately I'm making folders with different things in them.
I also need to make accounts and upload things from those folders.
I need to upload them to multiple sites and some names might be taken.
So I thought using letters instead of numbers would solve this problem.
So names are less likely to be taken; and I still have things in order.

I kind of don't like saying the reason
because then usually people think it's more stupid than the question
then focus more on the reason than the question.
Or focus too much on why it is being done, not how to do it.
Hopefully I don't regret this
since you can't delete posts after some time now.

[Anonymous No.6365466]

>>6365124
>http://strawpoll.me/1182089
crap i screwed that poll up

http://strawpoll.me/1182918