(OT) [UA] classifiactions

[John Scott]

At 22:01 26/06/01 +1000, you wrote:

>That's a fair call, because they fit under "misecellaneous imaginary".
>
>Usually they'd go in Disputed Knowledge - that funky area up in the low zero
>numbers...next to the computing books.

You using DDC 19, Tim?  DDC21 now calls the 000s "Computing, Information 
and General Reference".

(It might be)Ob UA - it's not usually done, but it is possible to get 
_very_ specific on a DDC number.  For example, you can specify the country 
a book is about by using 09nn (where nn is the country designation) in the 
post decimal point section of the number.  If you classify books as much as 
possible, then you can easily end with DDC numbers running to 20 decimal 
places.

Or you could use them to send a message.  "The secret hiding place is in a 
bar called "The Middle Ages" in Tucson, Arizona" is, IIRC, possible to 
encode in DDC.

John


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