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NSTD.2:2 - Problem

Narrative is sequential. Many source structures are not. Trees, graphs, mechanism diagrams, dependency sets, option sets, proof dependencies, and architecture views must be traversed. A chosen order preserves some relations and hides others. If the ordering rule is implicit, a fluent sequence can misrepresent the selected source structure.