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#1 2008-02-10 11:27:15
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Equal, Less and Greater Than
Improved this page with more examples: Equal, Less and Greater Than Symbols
What do you think?
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#2 2008-02-10 12:46:58
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Grammatically I would most probably say John had fewer than 10 marbles since the marbles is a countable noun. 
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#3 2008-02-10 13:27:20
- John E. Franklin
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Sweet page.
The opening sentence with the parthesis bothers me though because the
parenthesis makes the reading hard. How about:
Sometimes numbers are not the same, and when this happens, we
have symbols to express this. If something is bigger, then the other
thing is smaller, so there is a symbol for this. This is what is looks
like. > Looks like the letter V on its side. You can make the
letter V fall over to the left like >, or you can make the letter
V fall over to the right like <. Then you can put numbers and
really anything you want on the right and left of this funny sideways
V.
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#4 2008-02-10 20:18:23
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Grammatically I would most probably say John had fewer than 10 marbles since the marbles is a countable noun.
Ah yes ... the little known "fewer than" sign 
Sweet page.
The opening sentence with the parthesis bothers me though because the
parenthesis makes the reading hard. How about: ...
At your prompting I completely rewrote the beginning of the page ... what do you think now?
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#5 2008-02-11 17:43:13
- John E. Franklin
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Pretty good.
As well as the familiar equals sign (=)
it is also very
useful to show
if something is not equal to (≠)
greater than (>)
or less than (<)
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#6 2008-02-11 20:44:00
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Thanks!
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#7 2008-02-11 23:47:35
- Daniel123
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
Maybe you could say that if you're using inequalities in algebra you need to flip the symbol if you divide/multiply by a negative number?
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#8 2008-02-12 02:50:51
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Re: Equal, Less and Greater Than
I'd say algebraic inequalities deserve a page of their own. That one example at the end is alright because it's a tiny introduction, but after that I'd put a "For more algebraic fun, go here"-type link.
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#9 2008-02-12 09:03:10
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Yes,I need such a page.
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