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Huh, it's funny but I have seen >> to the nth degree used in casual internet slang to indicate a similar concept. Almost certainly just used intuitively for emp
by Vanit 5y ago
Huh, it's funny but I have seen >> to the nth degree used in casual internet slang to indicate a similar concept. Almost certainly just used intuitively for emphasis, but it's interesting that it's also a real notation.
- kelnos 5y agoYes, I remember on IRC in the 90s people would use ">" to mean "better than", and ">>" to mean "much better than" (like "chocolate >> vanilla"). I still see this usage occasionally on other platforms (matrix, slack), but not all that often anymore.
- ghoshbishakh 5y agoIsn't this notation very common and widely used in school Mathematics?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoWell, sort of. The notation is common in the sense that if you're taking a math class where the concept is relevant, that's what's going to be used. But it's not so common to take a class like that.
- taneq 5y agoI’d imagine both are the result of the same emphasis-by-repetition.