Nov 5, 2012 00:05
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English term
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less (than) or equal (to)
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“When the inventory level is less or equal r,… ”
Shouldn't it be rather: “When the inventory level is less than or equal to r, …”
Shouldn't it be rather: “When the inventory level is less than or equal to r, …”
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| 4 +9 | less than or equal to |
Oliver Walter
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Oliver Walter
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Related KudoZ points
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8
Selected
less than or equal to
Yes; strictly, "the inventory level is less or equal r" is not grammatically correct. "less or equal" is probably influenced by how computer programmers read "A <= B" in the definition of an algorithm. (I've written "<=" to represent "less or equal"; in an actual programming language it may be written "<=", ".le." or possibly something else). They probably read it as "less or equal" because that is a smaller number of words and the meaning is clear, but in grammatically correct English it is "less than or equal to".
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Martin Riordan
7 mins
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| agree |
Dan Dascalescu
: Correct - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C++#Comparis...
18 mins
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| agree |
John Alphonse (X)
26 mins
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| agree |
Egil Presttun
4 hrs
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| agree |
Tony M
6 hrs
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| agree |
Jenni Lukac (X)
8 hrs
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| agree |
Jack Doughty
8 hrs
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| agree |
PoveyTrans (X)
10 hrs
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| agree |
Colin Rowe
10 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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