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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by evanb on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:57AM (#31754972)
You have the inequality backwards!
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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by timdiggerm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:24PM (#31755349)
Mathematically, yes. But in terms of value, no.
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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by nerdponx on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:27PM (#31756274)
An economist might notate this as "0.000 ≻ 0.00".

Curly comparison operators like "≻" (U+227B SUCCEEDS) are often used specifically to avoid ambiguity with traditional comparison operators like ">". See: https://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/wp-content/uploads/2...

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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:26PM (#31761162)
Heh, I think a barely different glyph introduces more ambiguity than it solves. On my screen it’s effectively the same glyph but now with “oh, well it’s actually different.”
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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by nerdponx on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:53PM (#31772416)
I noticed that they are pretty similar in some fonts at small sizes, but in traditional math fonts and handwritten, these operators tend to be very "curly" and easy to distinguish.
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Re:Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare ... by w-j-w on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:15PM (#31755233)
If he is comparing meaningfulness as the parent comment would imply, then he has it right.
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