Habits and terminology
I try to use technical terms that are generally accepted, but sometimes I don't know a common name,
possibly because it does not exist, and have to choose one on my own.

When finite subsets are to be ordered in a sequence, it is often better to order them like reversed binary numbers - although for most people ordering them like binary numbers would be more intuitive.
For some years I have called this "little-endian binary" — butendianness refers to the order of bytes (not of bits). The term does not make sense outside of computer science.
The subsets of {A,B}
| The subsets of {A,B,C} ordered like reversed binary numbers are:
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| The subsets of {A,B,C} ordered like binary numbers are:
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Only when the subsets are ordered like reversed binary numbers, the sequence of subsets of {A,B}
is the beginning of the sequence of subsets of {A,B,C}.
This leads to a sequence of finite subsets of the infinite set {A,B,C,D...}.
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A more general concept iscolexicographic order (seelexicographic and colexicographic order).


When a matrixA is anm×n matrix, containingp×q matricesBij as elements,
it is often interesting to see thedual matrixX, which is ap×q matrix, containingm×n matricesYij as elements.
Dual matrices contain the same elements of elements (usually that should be numbers),
so in the end they show the same information, but in a different way.
The element bij,kl in the matrixBij
is the same as
the element ykl,ij in the matrixYkl .
The matrix
is dual to
.
The following example is a 24×24 join table containing triangular grids with binary entries, and below the corresponding triangular grid containing 24x24 matrices with binary entries.
| Join table |
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(Compare:Symmetric_group_S4#Join_and_meet) |
Vertex colored graphs can have the same kind of duality. See e.g. thetesseract graph above.
For some purposes I use a set of self-developed signs for the 16 binary strings with 4 digits (nibbles).
Their horizontal symmetry is like that of the nibbles themselves. The rotation of a sign belongs to thecomplementary nibble.
(Hence the vertical reflection gives the reflected complement, which is e.g. the relationship betweenAND andOR).
The signs of asymmetric nibbles have their weight on the same side as the nibble (i.e. the side with more 1s).
The signs represent only the nibbles. There are two ways to assign them to integers, namely as binary or reverse binary numbers.
The similarity of
and
to 3 and 7 makes the unreversed interpretation more intuitive.(In that interpretation they arehexadecimal figures.)