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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