Re: string 5252

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Robert Walker wrote:

> Mathematicians and programmers are used to "string"
> meaning any sequence of characters, numbers or symbols.
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=string&r=67
> (meaning 6)

Factoid of the day:

A sequence of characters is properly termed a "Hollerith string" as all
good Fortran programmers should know.

Graham