• TheTechnician27
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    4 months ago

    “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.

    • @[email protected]
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      244 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        224 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          234 months ago

          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.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months 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)

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      Nope, it just sounds odd.

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