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I know there is a syntactically correct way that everyone knows and accepts, but it does depend on what the expression is.

Do you write it 5 > 3 or 3 < 5?

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I don’t understand your question, both of those are correct.

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When I was in elementary school I knew how to use the signs but not how to read them. So I’d always read it as greater than and flip it. So 3 < 5 I would read out loud as “5 is greater than 3”. My teacher quickly corrected me though. So it was only for like a week or so.

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Well, that’s a correct statement, you don’t have to say “less than” to read that statement accurately.

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Exactly, both of those statements convey the same information but are encoded in different ways.

To a foreigner, seeing the > < brackets may be more contextual than it is symbolic.

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“To a foreigner”?

You know “<” and “>” aren’t English expressions, right…?

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You’re arguing 6x3 or 3x6

They’re the same

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They are expressed the same principles. I’d even say they are “encoded” in the same way.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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