From: Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com>
To: Patrik Eklund <peklund@cs.umu.se>
Cc: Categories <categories@mta.ca>, scott@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: An elementary question
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:21:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dhfog-0001q1-HG@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa2a57444ecc56bfc61165f2263d42e5@cs.umu.se>
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Patrik Eklund <peklund@cs.umu.se> wrote:
> So in that text, readable on the monitor, there are indeed partial orders,
> and if you, Mike, want to focus on the carriage return, fine.
The rendering of text or graphics on a screen made of scan lines is
just one easy example of serialization, a nontrivial practical task on
which millions of man hours have been spent. The lexicographic
ordering is well-defined and well-motivated, and it's reasonable to
ask for a nice characterization.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-15 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-13 19:55 Dana Scott
2017-08-14 0:15 ` alex
2017-08-14 4:42 ` Patrik Eklund
2017-08-14 18:43 ` Mike Stay
2017-08-15 5:57 ` Vaughan Pratt
[not found] ` <fa2a57444ecc56bfc61165f2263d42e5@cs.umu.se>
2017-08-15 14:21 ` Mike Stay [this message]
2017-08-14 8:00 ` Paul Blain Levy
2017-08-14 18:51 ` Robin Cockett
[not found] ` <CAKQgqTb4f=+Y=SuCu26AKg3Wd02friY_6z9FhukXiSnoapLZRQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-08-15 4:50 ` Patrik Eklund
2017-08-15 21:49 ` Joachim Kock
2017-08-17 2:02 ` Branko Nikolić
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