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Anyone know the history behind using the term "string" to mean a sequence of characters? I mean its not like a series of characters looks much like a ball of string... I assume it's origins are as a mathematical term, but it would be interesting to know how it came to such common use in computing.
:Presumably it comes from the rather obvious expression "a string of characters" (as in "these go some characters stringing by"), equivalent to "a string of pearls" or "a sequence of characters" or other similar phrases. — [[User:Loadmaster|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster|talk]]) 16:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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