Large points...was incongruent hash
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 10 22:18:18 UTC 1998
Mike Klein writes:
> > >But how? How is a given location 'bigger' than another given location? If
> > >you define #<,#>,#= etc for locations (points) then the definitions are
> > >necessarily arbitrary, are they not? If a point is not < another and not >
> > >another, then it logically must be = to the other, but what happens with
> > >1 at 2 and 2 at 1?
>
> Logically yes, but...
>
> 'Mike' > 'mike' false
> 'Mike' < 'mike' false
> 'Mike' = 'mike' false
> 'Mike' >= 'mike' true
> 'Mike' <= 'mike' true
>
>
> Math is hard...
>
> -- Mike Klein
>
> P.S. all but = are case insesitive.
So is there a reason for this mixup, or is it yet another historical
wierdness?
Lex
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