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[โ€“] wiccan2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The version I was taught starts with the equals sign. There is nothing simpler to depict the concept of equality than two parallel lines of the same length. Now pinch one side to spoil the equalness, the pinched side points to the smaller number in the unequal pair.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 20 hours ago

That's so much more work than just remembering the gator wants to eat more.