Comment by lioeters
2 days ago
Interesting, recently I did a test to see if the file system sorts hexadecimal numbers correctly as prefixes. It does with `less`, but looking at the definition for "natural sort order", perhaps other tools or algorithms work only with base-10.
> Natural sorting algorithms generally operate by splitting strings into "chunks" of text and numbers.
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