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seems the decimals are already currently being used for virus strains: sars-cov1, sars-cov-2... for variants it could be minor versions such as sars-cov-2.4 bu
by officialjunk 5y ago
seems the decimals are already currently being used for virus strains: sars-cov1, sars-cov-2...
for variants it could be minor versions such as sars-cov-2.4 but then there may be confusion about them being related sequentially and that one is an "improvement" over the other. :)
- alok-g 5y agoThat's just differentiating nominal numbers from others [1]. The same is much too common everywhere -- zipcodes, student ID number, etc. I am still missing reason why the suggested base 24 is better. :-) [1] https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/cardinal-ordinal-nominal.html https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/cardinal-ordinal-nominal....
- officialjunk 5y agoi'm mostly joking. it's not better, at least not to me.
- alok-g 5y agoThe said joking is/was good with me. :-)