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danielweber on May 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address...

What is that way of ordering numbers called? If I knew the name I could google it but that's what I'm missing.

Coincoin on May 22, 2014 | [–]

It's called a Hilbert Curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

tbrownaw on May 22, 2014 | | [–]

It's a variety of space-filling curve.

That's enough to find out that this particular one is called a Hilbert curve.

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