This just in from one of our regular correspondents: “Dear Team Dewey: While I applaud the recent proposal to provide for muggles in Table 1 (under Persons lacking magical powers), I am dismayed by the continued and unaccountable absence of quidditch from the DDC schedules. I trust that this oversight can be rectified at your earliest convenience, and in any case before midnight tonight. Yours, etc., H. Potter.” Happy to oblige, H. We’ve been thinking for a while now about a new class 796.36 Ball driven by mind of its own, where quidditch would go in a class-here note. But we’re very much open to other suggestions. Anyone care to help?
The longest sequence of 9's that you can have in a Dewey number is the built number 745.6199999 (that's five 9's). It means calligraphy in artificial languages, so you might use it if anyone ever wrote a book on Elvish calligraphy.
Posted by: Giles Martin | July 18, 2005 at 09:21 AM
And in case it's not obvious, my last post related to "Repetition, repetition, repetition", not the thread that it's attached to. Is there any way to move posts to the right thread?
Posted by: Giles Martin | July 18, 2005 at 09:24 AM
Quidditch would, of course, be shelved right next to cricket (796.358). Which raises the question: with an Ashes series reaching its climax, and an Australian and an Englishman among the Dewey editors, is it time that Test cricket got its own Dewey number?
Posted by: Chew Chiat Naun | September 07, 2005 at 06:12 PM
Test cricket falls into 796.35865, International cricket. So the question would be, does it "approximate the whole"? If it does, than you would just need a class-here note there.
Posted by: Giles Martin | September 08, 2005 at 01:48 PM