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Column headers as well, as per modern convention, as opposed to row headers.
by hammock 2y ago
Column headers as well, as per modern convention, as opposed to row headers.
- notorandit 2y agoUsually we put "properties" as column headers while rows represent entities whose those properties are assigned or recorded. It would be interesting to understand why it's not been the other way around or whether Sumerians used both orientations.
- HappMacDonald 2y agoI'd imagine it's down to our convention of writing left to right, so more-related data points (such as properties of the same item) get arranged left to right. A quick test to that hypothesis (which I'm too lazy to try to perform but offer to anyone who might be interested in looking or who might already know) would be looking at ancient Chinese table layouts. :)
- 6510 2y agothe last col is the header. I see the use of row-span too! Something we are still struggling to figure out.