It’s simple alphabetic.

neogodless 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Is "slash" (/) before or after "space" ( ) ... or both... before and after it?

Is 8 before or after 4 in the alphabet?

bena 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

No, there's no reasonable ordering going on.

If it were ordered by ordinal values, "/" is 47 and " " is 32, so "1 in" would come before "1/2 in".

It's not alphabetized by letter word. Because while "Eight" comes before "Four", "Specialty" would come before "Three".

No matter which way you attempt to order it, something is out of order.

Softtalker probably got it right. This is some default or id sort.

Before. _E_ight vs _F_our.

But _T_wo is also before _F_our

	▲	VTimofeenko 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The sorting briefly switches to reverse order there, so no contradiction.

antonvs 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

3/8 doesn’t come before 3/4 alphabetically.