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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"The entirety of the small number constitutes a relatively smaller portion of the big number. Thus, the open side of > points to the smaller number to indicate that it's a magnified view within the larger number."

I hope this helps overcomplicate things for you. We must all return to crocodile.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Crocodile? Are you guys from Florida? In Europe we learned it as duck beak, it just makes much more sense, where are the teeth? Nowhere it's not an alligator mouth it's a beak

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah fam, if your bird looks like that it's probably dead. I also learnt it as the crocodile in Germany

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Duck, crocodile, they're both archosaurs. Which means if it's either, they should have a premaxillar fenestra on the lower jaw, but I'm not seeing any. Clearly, this must be a possum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm thinking horribly mangled German bank executive with a lisp 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nono, we don’t do math in Florida anymore. Also we’d be more likely to use “alligator” (tho we have plenty of both)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In the pre-digital age when most of this was pencil markings, it was not uncommon to see someone had drawn the teeth in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

A greedy crow is what they told me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I learned it as Pac Man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm from Europe and I learned it as a wale (and I'm from southern Europe)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nope, it just sounds odd.

I'll stick with big side = big number, small side = small number.