• affiliate@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    i feel like i’ve been using latex for so long that at this point my brain has been rewired to see ≤ as ‘\le’ (less than or equal to) and ≥ as ‘\ge’ (greater than or equal to), and then this dictates how i view < and > as well

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      9 days ago

      I worked for years in a data validation system. All day I was writing rules using the symbols and writing the decode of the rule in words - less than or equal to

      I really don’t need mnemonics