Dan Lester wrote:
> Ahhh, yes. But if you think Dewey is bad, take a look at LC. Even though not shoehorned into tens, it has the same issue of lack of room for expansion, for insertion of materials on new topics, and so forth. That will necessarily be true of ANY system that classifies.
Well, I can't prove this, but Ranganathan, who was a mathematician, claimed that his colon classification was infinitely expandable due to his use of the number 9 to extend the notation at any point.
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