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?
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.
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.
People don’t know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
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?
500 greater then steps per day
500 > steps_per_dayUnfortunately I don’t think we have enough information to solve for
steps_per_day, though I assume it is also>= 0.So we can make an educated guess that
500 > steps_per_day >= 0Lmao
Yes that’s the intention but they got the order wrong, it would make more sense if it was written as ateps/day < 500
It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
x>5 <=> 5>x 🤓
Can’t tell if an Excel enthusiast or a palindrome aficionado. 🤔
Yes
People don’t know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
That’s if you interpret the text as being part of the equation
It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
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
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.
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.
They where busy… walking?
such as yourself you mean?
Nope, it’s wrong lol