Why are comics and poems alike: Sequence p1

The order of elements does affect the result

And here I am again trying to mix what looks like water and oil… Let’s start with the most obvious of questions.

WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? OXFORD DEFINITION

This time, since I’m consulting a digital online version —so I can just copy-paste instead of typing, the dictionary is an Oxford and not my loyal Merriam Webster.

sequence /ˈsiːkw(ə)ns/

I. noun

1. a particular order in which related things follow each other  • the content of the programme should follow a logical sequence • [ mass noun ] the poems should be read in sequence .

2. [Music] a repetition of a phrase or melody at a higher or lower pitch. • a restless search for interesting harmonic sequences.

3. [Biochemistry] the order in which amino-acid or nucleotide residues are arranged in a protein, DNA, etc. • these are enzymes which will cleave only at specific base sequences in the DNA.

4. a set of related events, movements, or items that follow each other in a particular order

6. [Mathematics] an infinite ordered series of numerical quantities.

No, this isn’t useful yet. And I’ll have to translate and apologize for, I don’t remember what book this is from.

WHAT’S A SEQUENCE? MATHEMATICS’ POV

<<In Mathematics, a succession or whole sequence is a whole numbers succession (in other words, an ordered list). A whole succession can be specified explicitly through a formula for their n-th terms; or implicitly by establishing a correspondence among its terms. E.g. An implicit description for the Fibonacci succession  0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… would be; “a succession is one to start with the numbers 0 and 1; adding two of the consecutive numbers to obtain the following one”>>.

Things begin to make sense. But it is not enough yet….

TO BE CONTINUED