↗312 and ↗812 are closest. It’s the same algorithm, same execution speed for me (after the initial delay getting my head round the idea). As far as I can introspect, anyway. But also if we wrote a simple program it would take the same number of steps in either writing direction, since the two problems are mirrors of each other.
It’s not a pure mirror with numbers of different length. For example, if the question is “what number is biggest?” then ↗numbers have a faster algorithm in left-justified text because the reader can scan the right side only.
↗101
↗749,09
↗99
↗486,98
Which is of course why in the real world columns of numbers are right-justified. Still, this would solve the concrete problem of making my spreadsheets look nicer when I mix text and numbers in the same column.
↗312 and ↗812 are closest. It’s the same algorithm, same execution speed for me (after the initial delay getting my head round the idea). As far as I can introspect, anyway. But also if we wrote a simple program it would take the same number of steps in either writing direction, since the two problems are mirrors of each other.
It’s not a pure mirror with numbers of different length. For example, if the question is “what number is biggest?” then ↗numbers have a faster algorithm in left-justified text because the reader can scan the right side only.
↗101
↗749,09
↗99
↗486,98
Which is of course why in the real world columns of numbers are right-justified. Still, this would solve the concrete problem of making my spreadsheets look nicer when I mix text and numbers in the same column.