Terms and Glossary Flashcards
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Lexicographical order or lexicographic order
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In mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, dictionary order, alphabetical order or lexicographic(al) product) is a generalization of the way words are alphabetically ordered based on the alphabetical order of their component letters. This generalization consists primarily in defining a total order over the sequences (often called strings in computer science) of elements of a finite totally ordered set, often called an alphabet.
