From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9298 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: An elementary question Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:21:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mike Stay NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502818840 24602 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 17:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories , scott@cs.cmu.edu To: Patrik Eklund Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Aug 15 19:40:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfpN-0005ke-Bf for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44016) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfp2-0002qZ-02; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:40:08 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfog-0001q1-HG for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:39:46 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9298 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Patrik Eklund 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. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]