Not for me, tho

[astrsk@fedia.io]

What?

Two, Eight, Eleven, — not gonna type it all out because it’s already wrong.

What am I missing here?

[hatchetharo@pawb.social]

"Two" is the last one. The order starts with "eight".

Think about it: on a real analogue clock, where is the smallest number and where is the largest?

[vinny_93@lemmy.world]

Dutch is an Anglo-Saxon language so that makes sense.

[donalonzo@lemmy.world]

Lexicographical clock

1 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

[monogram@feddit.nl]

I hate this so much

[monogram@feddit.nl]

You’re missing 2

1 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

[late_night@sopuli.xyz]

I both love and hate this

[whostosay@lemmy.world]

You're missing the lack of logic, aka you're not missing shit, OP has some soul searching to do.

[wander1236@sh.itjust.works]

2 is overrated tbh

[mac@mander.xyz]

Sure but the clock doesn't tell time any differently—now it's just displaying wrong, instead.

[derpenheim@lemmy.zip]

Ah there it is. The real language, not the one a confused toddler trying to learn German speaks

[mexigore@lemmy.world]

Standard Dutch is not Anglo-Saxon but some other Dutch dialects/languages like Frisian are.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

altı beş bir dokuz dört iki on onbir oniki sekiz üç yedi

6 5 1 9 4 2 10 11 12 8 3 7

[niktemadur@lemmy.world]

What time is it?
It's Beer O'clock!

[famijoku@feddit.org]

8 3 1 11 5 9 6 7 4 10 2 12

[frunch@lemmy.world]

2 is overrated tbh 2bh

[frunch@lemmy.world]

2 is overrate8d tbh 2bh

[theimpressivex@piefed.social]

It's 9 o'clock somewhere!

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

Which language provides the most random alphabetically sorted sequence?

Data

|  N | Eng | Dut | Ger | Tur | Chi | Lex |
|----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----|
|  1 |   8 |   8 |   8 |   6 |   8 |   1 |
|  2 |  11 |   3 |   3 |   5 |   2 |  10 |
|  3 |   5 |   1 |   1 |   1 |   9 |  11 |
|  4 |   4 |  11 |  11 |   9 |   6 |  12 |
|  5 |   9 |   9 |   5 |   4 |   3 |   2 |
|  6 |   1 |  10 |   9 |   2 |   4 |   3 |
|  7 |   7 |  12 |   6 |  10 |   7 |   4 |
|  8 |   6 |   2 |   7 |  11 |  10 |   5 |
|  9 |  10 |   4 |   4 |  12 |  12 |   6 |
| 10 |   3 |   5 |  10 |   8 |  11 |   7 |
| 11 |  12 |   6 |   2 |   3 |   5 |   8 |
| 12 |   2 |   7 |  12 |   7 |   1 |   9 |

Sourced from comments in thread (English from image, Dutch from [email protected], German from [email protected] , Turkish from some rando, Chinese from [email protected], Lexicographical from [email protected])

Plot with Correlation Scores

We will compute the pearson correlation (r-statistic) score by comparing the base number (column 1) with the corresponding language column. We will also compute the Serial correlation, by creating staggered columns that measure how close a number is in a sequence to the one before it.

::: spoiler Staggered Table

cat alphabetic.tab \
    | awk '{print $0"\t"prE"\t"prD"\t"prG"\t"prT"\t"prC"\t"prL;prE=$2;prD=$3;prG=$4;prT=$5;prC=$6;prL=$7}' \
    | tee alphabetic.tab.stagger

:::

::: spoiler Plot Code

gnuplot -p -e '
  set xlabel "Base Sequence";
  set ylabel "Alphabetic";
  set xtics 1,1,12;
  set ytics 1,1,12;
  set title "Alphabetic Number Plot with Correlation Score";
  set rmargin 25; set key at graph 1.5,0.9;
  set size ratio 0.45;

  stats "alphabetic.tab.stagger" using 1:2 name "E";
  stats "" using 1:3 name "D";
  stats "" using 1:4 name "G";
  stats "" using 1:5 name "T";
  stats "" using 1:6 name "C";
  stats "" using 1:7 name "L";
  
  stats "" using 2:8 name "ES";
  stats "" using 3:9 name "DS";
  stats "" using 4:10 name "GS";
  stats "" using 5:11 name "TS";
  stats "" using 6:12 name "CS";
  stats "" using 7:13 name "LS";

  set label 1 sprintf("%10s  %6s  %6s", "", "Base", "Stagger") at graph 1.07,0.95;

  plot "" using 1:2 with lines lw 3 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "English", E_correlation, ES_correlation),
       "" using 1:3 with lines lw 3 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "Dutch", D_correlation, DS_correlation),
       "" using 1:4 with lines lw 3 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "German", G_correlation, GS_correlation),
       "" using 1:5 with lines lw 3 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "Turkish", T_correlation, TS_correlation),
       "" using 1:6 with lines lw 3 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "Chinese", C_correlation, CS_correlation),
       "" using 1:7 with lines lw 1 title sprintf("%10s  %+.3f  %+.3f", "Lexicon", L_correlation, LS_correlation)
'

:::

It looks like Dutch has the lowest (near 0) correlation to both the base sequence and it's own staggered sequence, with Turkish mirroring it's staggered randomness somewhat.

The least random alphabetic sequences are English and German.

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Updated: Added chinese and staggered analysis.

[ddplf@szmer.info]

Is it a meme or a riddle?