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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 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 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

A greedy crow is what they told me

[–] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.

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

I learned it as Pac Man.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, it just sounds odd.

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