Comment on monthly challenge

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• na_th_an@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you read it aloud it doesn’t sound right, but from a mathematical perspective it’s saying the number of steps per day should be less than 500, which I think is the intention of the writer, no?

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    500 greater then steps per day

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    • moseschrute@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      500 > steps_per_day

      Unfortunately I don’t think we have enough information to solve for steps_per_day

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lmao

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes that’s the intention but they got the order wrong, it would make more sense if it was written as number of steps < 500

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    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.

      Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.

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  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    x>5 <=> 5>x 🤓

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can’t tell if an Excel enthusiast or a palindrome aficionado. 🤔

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      • higgsboson@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s if you interpret the string as being part of the equation

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  • violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols

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• bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s correctly used in the text.

  Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was thinking that. Seems to work to me, the wide end is the bigger number and 500 is more than your steps per day

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• gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn’t make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as “five hundred greater than steps a day” instead of parsing it as math.

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Only reason it’s so jarring is the context has people parsing the whole list as language and they weren’t expecting to have to abruptly parse a mathematical expression.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  such as yourself you mean?

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope, it’s wrong lol

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They where busy… walking?

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