What are the rules of alphabetizing? If I have model #'s 10D, 10SPF, and 10DSPF, what is the correct order?

Question

Do you analyze letters or go by the number of letters total? (So should it be 10D, 10DSPF, 10SPF because D comes before S in the first position even though there are more letters? Or should it be 10D, 10SPF, 10DSPF because SPF has less letters than DSPF?)

Answer 1

its 10D 10DSPF and 10SPF. you have it correct because of the letters.

Answer 2

10D, 10DSPF, 10SPF

Each letter/number has a position. The first and second letters/numbers of each group match, so you look at the third to determine which comes first.

10D comes first because there are no further letters past the D. 10DSPF comes next because the D in its third position comes before the S in 10SPF.

Answer 3

Same as anything else, you need to ignore the number. You wouldn't put the word spite before despite in the dictionary. The correct order is 10D, 10DSPF, 10SPF. It has nothing to do with the number of letters, just typical alphabetizing rules.

Answer 4

Ignore the letters for a minute and put them in order. 1+ just like the numbers we learn as kids. Then, take all the ones that start with say, 10, and put THAT section in order of letters. 10D,10DSPF, 10SPF, just like you would for a list of words, or as it is in the dictionary. then take the elevens, and do the same. those that start with 12, etc. etc.
hope this helps and isn't too confusing.

Answer 5

I'm almost 100% positive that numbers go first, and then letters. So it would be 10D,10DSPF, and then 10SPF because 10DSPF comes before SPF. Hope I helped.

Answer 6

In our stock room, it would go 10D, 10DSPF, 10SPF. The number of letters is irrelevant. Pick up a dictionary or a phone book.

Answer 7

You do it by the lowest number (so if you had 7D that'd be first) then the earliest letter in the alphabet, for each letter that you have. If one has only 2 letters and another has the same 2 letters and then a third one, the one with three is last, because it has an additional character.

Answer 8

look in a dictionary- alphabetizing is NOT based on word length. malefactor is before mile. so, 10D then 10DSPF then 10SPF.

Answer 9

The position of the letters in the alphabet determines the order, not how many letters there are.

The correct order for your example is:

10D
10DSPF
10SPF

If letters are repeated, the order is fewest number of repeated letters first. For example:

a
aa
aaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
aabaa

If items beginning with numbers are in a list along with items beginning with letters, the numbers go first, starting with 0, as in:

0
3
22
10D
10DSPF
10SPF
a
aa
aaa
aaaaa
aaaaaa
aabaa

Answer 10

Nope. since they all begin with the same first two digits, you need to go by the FIRST LETTER in the "word"

In the case of D vs. DSPF, D would come first, due to shortness of "word"