NOTATIONAL SYMBOLS IN CLASSIFICATION: PART III: FURTHER COMPARISONS OF BREVITY Available to Purchase

In Part II of this series of papers (this Journal, vol. 12, no. 2,1956, pp. 73–87), I urged that to ‘obtain a quantitative understanding of the relationships between brevity of symbol and style of notation, it is necessary to construct a series of model notations in which only one feature is varied at a time’. I then compared the lengths of two styles of ordinal notation—‘enumerative’ notation such as that of Bliss or the U.D.C., which does not use distinctive main‐class symbols, and what I called ‘faceted’ notation such as that of Ranganathan, which does use such symbols. (I would now prefer to call the latter ‘labelled’ notation.)