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  2. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as sequences of numbers or ...

  3. Lexicographic order - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, or dictionary order) is a generalization of the alphabetical order of the dictionaries to sequences of ordered symbols or, more generally, of elements of a totally ordered set . There are several variants and generalizations of the lexicographical ordering.

  4. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet. An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken ...

  5. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    ASCII ( / ˈæskiː / ⓘ ASS-kee ), [3] : 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.

  6. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    Colors are an important part of the visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following list shows a compact version of the colors in the list of colors A–F, G–M, and N–Z articles.

  7. List of national capitals - Wikipedia

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    Ankara became the capital of the newly-formed Republic of Turkey in 1923, after the Turkish War of Independence. Istanbul was the capital of Turkey's predecessor, the Ottoman Empire . Astana was named Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Almaty was the capital from 1929 to 1997.

  8. Help:Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    The alphabetical order used by Wikipedia is based on the Unicode order and corresponds to American Standard Code for Information Interchange . Blank spaces between words in a page name are treated as an underscore "_", and are therefore ordered after upper case letters and before lower case letters. Blank spaces after a page name come before ...

  9. Gojūon - Wikipedia

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    Japanese writing. In the Japanese language, the gojūon (五十音, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo (d)ʑɯꜜːoɴ], lit. "fifty sounds") is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. The "fifty" ( gojū) in its name refers to the 5×10 grid in which the characters are ...