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• stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I never understood why so many people seemingly struggle with these signs to the point they need a mnemonic. The big side points to the big number and the small side to the small one. What even is there to remember?

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Look at Dr. Postdoc here

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I got a zero on a math test in second grade because I said “the bigger number is on the bigger side” instead of “the crocodile wants to eat the bigger number”, fuck you 2nd grade math teacher who made me hate math by being the thought police.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush

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• lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Say it in English grammar “GREATER than” means greater number first. And vice versa.

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  • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Crocodile eats bigger number

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    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I feel you.

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  • Brown5500@sh.itjust.works ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    How does this help me remember which symbol means greater than and which one means less than?

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    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The bigger side of the symbol is greater. The small side is less.

      We read left to right.

      That make sense?

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• Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever been taught a mnemonic with animals

  The small number is on the small side of the symbol, the large number is on the large side, it seems pretty intuitive to me, to be honest.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I learned it that way, along with the = sign showing the sides are equal. But by the time I was teaching, we used Pac-Man, drawing the rest of him around the hungry mouth. I still added “another way to look at it is,” and described the spaces:

    Big>little same=same little<Big

    Because it doesn’t matter how your mind makes the connection, as long as it works for you.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Nemo file manager still managed to fuck it up. ‘Triangle pointing down means small filesizes on top, yeah?’

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The teacher who first taught me told me “Pac Man wants to get the most points” and that stuck with me

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  • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks I finally understood this thread, kept thinking people were viewing the crocodile/duck/whatever from above

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  big side, big number

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Points at the smaller thing”

  Every time I watch a student stall out on inequalities I ask “it’s the crocodile isn’t it?”. Without fail, they’ve got confused by it and as soon as they hear “points at the smaller thing” they have no issues.

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  • PwnTra1n@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah its literally a graph. the bigger side is the bigger number. the smaller, surprise, smaller number.

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• someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Directions are one of the most confusing aspect tbh. Bounding is difficult…

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• c0ber@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  <3 is “less than three”, and 3 is “three” so logically < is “less than”

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I try this, but I always get <3 mixed up with Ɛ>

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      #cursed

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    aww love you too bro <3

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• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surely in theoretical physics, the most common use of > is in a ket (eg. |ψ>).

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  • mellitusgull@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Crocodile want to eat cactus ?

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    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That cactus is the devil!

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    arguably, it’s |ψ〉, which is not the same as >

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wow that’s a big difference (I have no idea what you are talking about)

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  • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No? Not everyone’s doing work on quantum systems. Far from it. Most people do not need to use Dirac notation.

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    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess not. Its just that when I hear ‘theoretical physics’ I immediately think of particle physics (and related fields). I have this idea that in most branches of physics people just say the topic, eg. astronomy, material sciences, or whatever; and don’t usually specify whether they are doing theoretical work or experimental/empirical work. But in particle physics … my impression is that people are more likely to specify. Anyway, that’s just my own bias I guess.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  < is part of a K. The K stands for Kleiner which means smaller in German/Dutch

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  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    < is a collapsed L which could be a shortened to “Less than”.

    …Not that I’ve ever used this, I always picture a crocodile.

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I earned it as the larger part being on the side of the bigger number

  .<:

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I also have a theoretical degree in physics

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re theoretically hired!

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• YaksDC@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am 54, and still every fucking time.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never heard this till this meme, apparently I was under a rock… Or in Florida

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    • YaksDC@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not a meme, just how I was taught to remember greater than / less then operator direction

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• kamills@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m a mechanical engineer, and I often have to do a double thumbs up with my hands like b_d. It’s the only way I can remember what comes first in the alphabet. In danish you spell boat båd, and if you mess up the order the b and d will be on the outside of the boat and drown, like dåb. Still works 20 years later

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  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you have dyslexia or something like that by chance? I don’t think I’ve met anyone who gets confused between b and d. (No offense, I’m just intrigued)

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    • kamills@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t have dyslexia. But I did only learn how to read and write in 5th grade.

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  • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have to mentally sing the alphabet song to double check I got the order right.

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Am librarian and can confirm: we all do this. It mostly comes up when shelving or retrieving books.

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• blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve always been a fan of using > and < but in the general use of lesser than or greater than, however, the symbols were always interchangeable to me since it always depends on where you put the defined integer, correct?

  If I want to say something is less than 37. It can either be 37 > or < 37.

  Because in that scenario the imaginary integer n is always on the opposite side of the symbol.

  37 > n

  n < 37

  So why did > ever become greater and < be less than? Doesn’t it also depend on your text is written? If people reading from right to left or down to up vs left to right and up to down, means it’s reversed.

  It’s it’s trying to say is that the open part of the caret is where the bigger number is.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    37 > n

    “37 is greater than n.”

    n < 37

    “n is less than 37.”

    Obviously both have the same meaning, but the symbols are named that way because people usually read left to right…

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  • ytg@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So why did > ever become greater and < be less than? Doesn’t it also depend on how your text is written? If people reading from right to left or down to up vs left to right and up to down, means it’s reversed.

    Yes. > is greater than because you’re reading left-to-right. 12 > 9, read: “twelve is greater than nine”. When reading in a right-to-left script, it’s the opposite, but because of how the BiDi spec works, the same Unicode character is actually used for the same semantic meaning, rather than the appearance. Taking the exact same block of text but formatting it right-to-left yields “⁧12 > 9⁩”, which is still read as a “greater than”, just from right-to-left.

    Hopefully that makes sense.

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    • Phlimy@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You just blew my mind with that unicode trivia. Super cool !

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• vsis@feddit.cl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Once I saw (tailless) a cow wearing a uniform.

  Image

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  MesseR Rechts, GabeL Links.

  Every single time when setting up dishes on the table.

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• Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One of my favorite teachers taught computers and pointed out that the less than symbol is towards the side of the keyboard with smaller numbers.

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i feel like i’ve been using latex for so long that at this point my brain has been rewired to see ≤ as ‘\le’ (less than or equal to) and ≥ as ‘\ge’ (greater than or equal to), and then this dictates how i view < and > as well

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I worked for years in a data validation system. All day I was writing rules using the symbols and writing the decode of the rule in words - less than or equal to

    I really don’t need mnemonics

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• flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was being disruptive in first grade and kicked out of class then we learned this (ADHD and boredom). I tried to peak through the window and do the crocodile arms to learn it, but my teacher saw me and came out and told me to stand at the end of the hall. I didn’t really learn this until 3rd grade. Ironically, math was my favorite subject for all of k-12.

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• siipale@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still sometimes think of pillars of one building when I think of concept of “tomorrow” because seeing those pillars was supposedly the first time in my childhood when I heard about “tomorrow”.

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• droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the bird beak pecks is meek.

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• Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• moshankey@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Taught in Florida. It was an alligator.

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    …and it was real. It ate all of our numbers and 1 kid.

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• blandfordforever@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another way to remember is that < is like a squished L, for “Less than”

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is how I always remember it

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• toxicbubble420@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  some ppl shouldn’t have degrees

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While in a vaccum this statement is true i dont think its appropriate here. Small things like this dont define how good someone is at the subject in question.

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• RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sooo, does the crocodile face to the left or to the right?

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  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The lines are the crocodiles wide-open mouth… … but yeah, I’m not a fan of this kind of mnemonic. It requires remembering a heap of details, such as which way the crocodile is facing, and does it prefer to attack the larger number or the smaller number - and how the relates to negatives… Which I think is surely more difficult than just remembering that the large end of the wedge is the larger number, and the small edge of the wedge is the smaller number.

    That said, having multiple different ways of remembering something is often helpful, particularly when getting started. (I remember having a bunch of different ways to remember which was “left” and which was “right” when I was a child. But now I don’t think about any of those things anymore.)

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• mellitusgull@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crocodile want to eat cactus ?

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