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[–] kubica@fedia.io 200 points 1 month ago (33 children)

It's a thing that I've always thought that people over-complicate. It's just there, the small side with the small number the big side with the big number...

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 114 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 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 22 points 1 month ago (8 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

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

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