how to get the ordinal number in list

[alister]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:21:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

> Math:
> 
> Try to formalize with mathematics the Flexible String Representation.
> You should quickly realize, it is a logical mathematical absurdity.
> Unbelievable.
> 
> jmf

Mathematicians work with numbers (Algebra is a abstraction of numerical 
concepts) strings are concerned with characters (Arabic numerals are just 
characters commonly used to represent numbers )
therefore even trying to rationalise any string representation with 
mathematics is a logical absurdity in itself.




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