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I remember learning about these in first grade and the explanation we got was "the beak of the little chick is pointing towards the bigger number" and I can't stress how much more confusing an explaination that is compared to the crocodile. Picture the following scene:
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Yes that's a bird shut up. Observe the beak. Where is it pointing in this case? That's right, it's pointing the wrong way. Why did they choose this stupid explaination? Who knooooows
What in the fuck kind of backwards ass logic is that?! CROCO GO NOM NOM ON BIGGY NUMBER BECAUSE HE HUNGY! What is wrong with your teacher, my god
Pretty sure they were going for this, not a baby bird just standing there:
Oh I understand what they were going for, not the issue I have though haha
yes as it turned out in about 10 minutes, but the picture she was trying to paint wasn't very clear to me until then
What made the symbols finally click for me is drawing a small number line with the arrows on either end and erasing the line.
in other words:
I feel this deeply as a 30 year old that has to repeat in my head "Never Eat Soggy Waffles" every time I use a cardinal direction
I always think that less than 3 makes a heart <3
And "three larger than" makes a funny-looking face or a sexy bikini. 3>
I learned "L" for Less than
And Г is for greater than?
or _|?
We will never know
That's co<<ect.
"gгeater than"
I am also an idiot who needs mnemonics to remember incredibly basic stuff. In a similar vein to OOP, I did a PhD in chemistry with substantial involvement with chiral structures and still don't really know left from right... but I never understood this one. Smaller number on the small side, bigger number on the big side always seemed really intuitive.
Also in a theoretical physics context I think of those symbols as Dirac notation more often than inequalities, but then I'm not a physicist.
Bra-Kets are have much shallower angles and inequalities are still used widely in physics
Fair. There's a reason I barely scraped through introductory quantum.
I learned it as Pacman. You could draw the rest of the circle and put a little eye in there.
I learnt it the exact same way! 😄
In Dutch the word for smaller is kleiner.
So I always think, can it make the letter K
2 < 3 2 smaller than 3 < K
no K
I still hear my kindergarten teacher's voice every time I look at an analog clock..."little hand points the hour"