• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Tell that to all the math textbooks that say “greater than > or less than <”.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Most of the time, math textbooks are dealing with real numbers (continuous quantities), for which that verbiage is appropriate.

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        17 hours ago

        Are percentages not continuous quantities? In this case, they represent ratio of discrete values, but we don’t know what those are.