I learned it as Pacman. You could draw the rest of the circle and put a little eye in there.
I know someone who did their entire thesis purposely without using effect/affect, because they didn’t know the difference. Instead used “impact” and other similar words.
Affect is an action and effect just exists is how I always remembered it.
that’s a lot better than my method of remembering that effect is not a verb
Effect can be used as a verb though https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/effect
I can only imagine the impact that had on the end result’s impact. Probably didn’t have the impact they wanted on the readers who were unimpacted by the message.
I still hear my kindergarten teacher’s voice every time I look at an analog clock…“little hand points the hour”
I really don’t get why you would need a mnemonic for a symbol that itself already is a mnemonic? How could it ever be confusing that big side is bigger than small side?
She just wants to say she is writing a PhD thesis in theoretical physics.
Because everyone’s brain is different and things that make intuitive sense for one person don’t necessarily make the same sense to someone else.
Yes, and that’s why they made the symbol portray what it means. I mean it’s even more clear than the equal sign, yet I haven’t heard of mnemonic’s for that?
Because there aren’t (in common use) multiple variations. If we used ≠ and ≈ to represent when the sum was arrived at via addition or subtraction, and only used = when you used both in the same equation, people would fuck that shit up all the time.
Also, you use the equal sign a lot more frequently in life. More exposure makes us remember better
Because the arrow always points to the bigger number, silly. /S
Right? How hard is it to remember that it’s an arrow that points at the biggest number? /s
Most Indonesian school teach to use use it like l> “besar” and l< “kecil”. Besar = big, kecil = small
How childish!
It’s obviously Pac-Man.
The greedy bird eats the biggest number
lots of food > not much food
I feel this deeply as a 30 year old that has to repeat in my head “Never Eat Soggy Waffles” every time I use a cardinal direction
In Dutch the word for smaller is kleiner.
So I always think, can it make the letter K
2 < 3 2 smaller than 3 < K
no K
I still think “Pervert Naruto” for PV=nRT
I just use both with a footnote that reads “one of these symbols always lies, one tells the truth. Determining which is which left as an exercise for the reader”
I learned “L” for Less than
And Г is for greater than?
or _|?
We will never know
That’s co<<ect.
“gгeater than”
My teacher said “Pac-Man wants to eat the number that gives him the highest score” and that sooo stuck with me
What made the symbols finally click for me is drawing a small number line with the arrows on either end and erasing the line.
I learnt it the exact same way! 😄
