- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 21:28:56 +0100
- To: public-xslt-40@w3.org
It was suggested during the meeting that spreadsheet column labels can be interpreted as base-26 numbers. I can't immediately see how this is supposed to work. The typical sequence is A, B, C, ... Z, AA, AB, AC, ... What is the zero-digit here? It can't be A, because then A would be 0 and AA would also be 0. If A=1, with radix=27, then Z=26 and AA=28 so there is a gap in the sequence. While the sequence is logical and practical, I can't see any way to interpret the column label as a base-N number. Michael Kay Saxonica
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