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[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 week ago (33 children)

It's a thing that I've always thought that people over-complicate. It's just there, the small side with the small number the big side with the big number...

[–] TheTechnician27 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 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.

[–] kameecoding 22 points 1 week ago (8 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