Timeline for Words for first-est and last-est items from a sequence
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 15:00 | answer | added | Phil Sweet | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 11:18 | comment | added | Marin | Thanks @PhilSweet. I'm now in the rabbit hole... Yes, I'm looking for generic words used in linear sequences. The reader knows what "before" and "after" means for the given sequence (no new information). Still "least" and "greatest" refer to size and potentially other things aside from the linear ordering per se. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 11:08 | history | edited | Marin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified the question some more.
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 1:48 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | Some terminology - totalordered(see especially under chain), partialordered, wellordered, wellfound. Your first task is to classify the ordering type that is relevant to the target set. Then use the terminology that is available for that type of ordering. If the set has an alphabet-like chain ordering, it is wellordered. It has a least element and a greatest element. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 1:11 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | I take it that you want a generic way of doing this, so alphabetically, chronologically, and similar domain specific terms are ruled out? If yes, is the reader expected to be able to order the set intuitively, or from a previous definition, or are you just now in the process of telling him which is first (is this new information)? | |
| Dec 24, 2018 at 11:26 | answer | added | Pam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 24, 2018 at 11:26 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Dec 24, 2018 at 10:39 | history | asked | Marin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |