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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by pmalynin on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:55AM (#11683354)
You can still compare them, e.g two numbers could or couldn't be equal. Equality is a form of comparison
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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by jungans on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#11683991)
wouldn't this make all things comparable?
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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by taotao670 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:57AM (#11684334)
Except apples and oranges apparently.
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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by DonHopkins on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:52PM (#11684878)
You can compare apples and oranges alphabetically.
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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by wtetzner on Thursday May 12, 2016 @04:21PM (#11686464)
As far as I can tell, it's not that you can't compare apples and oranges, it's just often misleading.
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Re:A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years by MichaelBurge on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:07PM (#11685474)
You don't even have to do that: Just well-order the universe and use the resulting ordering for your less-than operator.
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