Re: What comes after Appendix Z

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

On Wednesday, July 29, 2015, William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
wrote:

>
> As to numbers, letters, and all, I think there is enough to show that A, B,
> C, ... X, Y, Z, AA, AB, AC, ...AZ, BA, BB, BC, ... is the "rightest" way
> but
> almost any of these ways suggested would work.


Just like Excel spreadsheet columns.


> I was at one place the appendix numbering went A, A1, A2, A3, B, B1, B2, C,
> C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, D, D1, D2, E, F, G, G1, G2, and so on.I think  IBM also
> had something like that in some of their early DOS based programming
> documents. It seemed that Appendix A was a group and the A1, A2, A3 were
> appendices that fell under that group. App B was another group. It made
> sense
> when you thought of the content, but simply looking at the heading
> numbering, it was strange.


This would be my first choice, as it implies a sense of organization based
on content, which allows us to leverage our expertise.

-Tony
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