Ordering Numerical and chronological Strings representing numbers may be sorted based on the values of the numbers that they represent. For example, "−4", "2.5", "10", "89", "30,000". Pure application of this method may provide only a partial ordering on the strings, since different strings can represent the same number (as with "2" and "2.0" or, when scientific notation is used, "2e3" and "2000").
Ordering Numerical and chronological Strings representing numbers may be sorted based on the values of the numbers that they represent For example, "−4", "2.5", "10", "89", "30,000". Pure application of this method m.ay provide only a partial ordering on the strings, since different strings can represent the same number (as with "2" and "2.0" or, when scientific notation is used, "2e3" and "2000").