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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"The entirety of the small number constitutes a relatively smaller portion of the big number. Thus, the open side of > points to the smaller number to indicate that it's a magnified view within the larger number."

I hope this helps overcomplicate things for you. We must all return to crocodile.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 minutes ago

Nope, it just sounds odd.

I'll stick with big side = big number, small side = small number.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Crocodile? Are you guys from Florida? In Europe we learned it as duck beak, it just makes much more sense, where are the teeth? Nowhere it's not an alligator mouth it's a beak

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah fam, if your bird looks like that it's probably dead. I also learnt it as the crocodile in Germany

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Duck, crocodile, they're both archosaurs. Which means if it's either, they should have a premaxillar fenestra on the lower jaw, but I'm not seeing any. Clearly, this must be a possum.

I'm thinking horribly mangled German bank executive with a lisp 🤷

[–] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

In the pre-digital age when most of this was pencil markings, it was not uncommon to see someone had drawn the teeth in.

[–] Talia@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

I'm from Europe and I learned it as a wale (and I'm from southern Europe)

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I learned it as Pac Man.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Nono, we don’t do math in Florida anymore. Also we’d be more likely to use “alligator” (tho we have plenty of both)

[–] Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

A greedy crow is what they told me