Re: Mathematical strings

John Jones wrote:
a string is
simply a finite sequence of characters.

Um yes, that's what I said. A string is a pictogram.

A string in mathematics is usually understood to be a finite sequence
(a sequence is a certain kind of function) or an n-tuple (an n-tuple is
a result of iterations of the ordered pair operation). So unless by
'pictogram' you mean a finite sequence or an n-tuple, then the notion
of a string in mathematics is not that a string is a pictogram.

MoeBlee

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