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“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.

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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

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

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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.

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

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A greedy crow is what they told me

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

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

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I learned it as Pac Man.

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Nope, it just sounds odd.

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

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