I think that some confusion is due to == is regarded as meaning equality while it only means equivalence.

Modifying the RGB color example: there is a natural order < on the red channel. Given this ordering, two RGB colors are equivalent if and only if their red values coincide. In this sense, for example, the colors (0, 0, 0) and (0, 255, 255) equivalent although they are not equal.

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