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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Open end is big space (bigger number). Closed end is smaller space (smaller number).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I honestly don't understand how people struggle with this, but maybe it's some kind of light dyslexia. I don't judge people with dyslexia, obviously. It's easy for me, as someone who doesn't have dyslexia, to claim it is easy to see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know about everyone else but before I figured out the visual clues of the symbols on my own, the only explanation I ever got was "> is greater than, < is less than" but I was a kid and there was nothing stopping me from interpreting "10 < 100" as "100 is less than 10" which confused the hell out of me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I suppose it gets easier if you read it from left to right, which kids tend not to do at first for some reason. At least not my kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Big side big number, little side little number

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It can also be read as a statement, which can be true or false. You can fully well write "3 > 5", but the statement is false. 👍