On Mar 30, 1:24 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're forcing your argument too much, both != and <> are NOT standard > > mathematics operators -- the standard not-equal operator is >< -- and > > I can assure you that both != and <> won't be comprehensible to non- > > programmers. > > My maths may be a bit rusty, but I always thought that the standard not- > equal operator was like an = sign but with a diagonal slash through it as > displayed when you do: > > print u'\u2260'
Ah yes, that is also used (I completely forgot about that one, my math's aren't that sharp anymore) and I think it's used more frequently than ><. Some books use >< while most use ≠, but my argument was that no math book use != or <> (except in math for programmers).
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