question about usage

[Rene Stephenson]

The term "alphanumeric characters" avoids the slang alpha and also addresses numbers as individual characters, rather than things like 1.8956132 and 218,555,123 and 1x10^6...all of which are numbers.

 
;-)

Rene L. Stephenson




----- Original Message ----
From: "Shuttleworth, Roger" <Roger_Shuttleworth at tvworks.com>

The term "alphanumeric" covers both alphabetical and numeric characters.

-----Original Message-----
From:Deirdre Reagan
Sent: July 23, 2008 3:38 PM
To: Framer's List
Subject: OT: question about usage

Hi all:

Those two phrases sound overly complicated to me -- "numerical
characters" sounds like a complicated way of saying "numbers" and
ditto "alpha characters" for "letters."  (And isn't alpha just slang
for alphabetical? They aren't talking about the Greek character.)