Science & tech enthusiast, and a nerd about all things visual arts.
Really into wed design and front-end/UX but also trying to fit into the full stack.
Ya, the way I was taught it and never forgot was "the smaller gator eats the bigger gator", one of those silly mental images that sticks.
Somehow, over time my brain learned to recognize it as "the greater one points to the lesser one"
The "a-ha" moment for me (that probably came too late in life) was that what's being represented with =, <, and > is the relative values, and that's represented by the space between the ends of the lines on that side.
With =, the lines are parallel, so the values are equal. With <, the distance between the two points is smaller on the left hand side, meaning it's the smaller value, and with > it's the reverse.
Maybe, sometimes I Google less/greater than sign. because I don't trust myself in it.
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"The mouth opens to the greater one" - My Junior School Teacher
I still have to think of the crocodile that was taught when I was a kid :)
Thanks for reminding me of this. I loved it in school,
In mathematics we read from left to right.
< the operator sign opens towards the bigger side.
Hope this helps :)
Easy way for me to remember as a weeb, 2D > 3D
Ya, the way I was taught it and never forgot was "the smaller gator eats the bigger gator", one of those silly mental images that sticks.
Somehow, over time my brain learned to recognize it as "the greater one points to the lesser one"
I learned the 4/7 style
> with a slash becomes a 7
< with a slash becomes a 4
7 is bigger than 4
The "a-ha" moment for me (that probably came too late in life) was that what's being represented with
=,<, and>is the relative values, and that's represented by the space between the ends of the lines on that side.With
=, the lines are parallel, so the values are equal. With<, the distance between the two points is smaller on the left hand side, meaning it's the smaller value, and with>it's the reverse.This. I don't actually understand how people cannot see this. Most mathematical operators are quite arbitrary, but these three actually make sense.
Literally the only reason I can remember this is because I know a heart emoji is "less than three" <3
Clever!