Re: Mathematical strings


Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
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).
A finite sequence of characters is a pictogram by virtue of it being
finite, a sequence, and being composed of characters. N tuple or what,
it makes no difference.

I just sent an email to a blind friend who will most likely read it with
JAWS. Was that a pictogram?

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If JAWS was given rules for counting the characters, with a start and
an end, then yes, its a pictogram. What JAWS did with it after that is
its own affair.

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