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Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols by raverbashing on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:59AM (#28499383)
If I tell you "Spring was lovely this year" are you going to confuse it with the mechanical part? No.

Context matters.

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Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols by tialaramex on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:59AM (#28499836)
This is fine in ordinary human conversation because of Grice's maxims and the goal of mutual comprehension, although...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw

Still you probably don't want opportunities for confusion when dealing with machines. What you are sure is obvious may not be obvious at all to the machine and it needn't care what you thought you meant.

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