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The most common complaint I get (at least concerning this Encyclopedia) is that I don't have things categorized. As much as I prefer the serendipitous joys of the browsing mode, I realize that others have legitimate preferences to which I should probably respond if they're nice enough to ask. As such, here is an attempt to gradually categorize at least some of the entries herein, although I fully realize that any categorization scheme is ultimately arbitrary and conjectural. This was perhaps best illustrated in the essay by Jorge Luis Borges entitled ``The Analytical Language of John Wilkins.'' Wilkins was an archetypal well-educated and interested Englishman of the 1600s who, among other things, came up with a scheme in which he divided the universe into forty categories. After describing the scheme and noting its deficiencies, Borges notes a precursor system in a Chinese encyclopedia entitled ``Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,'' in which animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emporer, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, and (n) those that resemble flies from a distance. While my software categorization scheme (or perhaps scheme-like contrivance) will probably be neither as arbitrary or (unfortunately) interesting as this, it should provide at least some rough idea as to what's here. Many of the packages listed in this Encyclopedia aren't as yet subsumed under one of the following listings, and indeed some may never be. Some packages are listed under more than one category, and some categories are subsumed under more than one major heading. As always, suggestions are welcome.
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