we think of words like "smaller" or "larger" in the context of numbers to refer to the magnitude of the number, not absolute directions on a number line -F
@socks honestly slightly surprised! the impression we got is that the Official Mathematical Convention™, such as it exists, is that smaller/larger are always synonymous with lesser/greater, and we assumed that you, being a mathematician, would probably follow that convention -F
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re: our answer
@Felthry It is the convention but it's counterintuitive so I don't like it!