Counting to 10 in Californian
This weekend I thought I had found an error in the numbering in the state’s online version, and so I headed to the law library to open a real book and see what’s going on.
I'm working on getting the California Codes online, focussing on the user's experience: reading, searching, and accessing. This weekend I thought I had found an error in the numbering in the state's online version, and so I headed to the law library to open a real book and see what's going on. I was surprised to see that the printed text is the same. (West's annotated and non-annotated editions.)
Here are three examples from the Code of Civil Procedure. The first, sections 676 et. seq. are the way I'd expect, in so-called natural sort order:
But here, a mathematical decimal ordering is in use:
Weirder still, both kinds are used in this group of codes:
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