How do you construct a table?

Answer 1

To answer how to construct a table we must do some definitions the first being that of a table. For discussion purposes here in the wiki we will generally define what is not a table:

not a place to place lunch or dinner plates or coffee cups.

not a place to conduct experiments or more properly a work bench.

not a place to position of place tools, telephones and/or books.

A table is a two dimension place to position truncated information in a list for human visual presentation to allow rapid access/knowledge to the expanded information. Here we talk about an information bit with x and y coordinates on a standard written page of about 8 1/2" by 11" paper.

A table must have it's attributes defined usually in a title with subparagraphs for other data definitions. Here is a simple example, Title, data bits, attributes as follows: Our Color Table (title)

Red 0 yellow 0 blue 0 (data bits)

Red 1 yellow 1 blue 1

Red 2 yellow 2 .....

Three colors in increasing darkness from 0 to 2 of the visual light spectrum. (attributes) Tables also have embellishments such as boldness, underlines, and other visual helpers. The above table is reconstructed with these embellishments in mind as follows:

---- ---- Human Colors

Red 0 yellow 0 blue 0

Red 1 yellow 1 blue 1

Red 2 yellow 2 . . . . .

Three colors in increasing darkness from 0 to 2 of

the visual light spectrum.

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