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Re: True == 1 weirdness

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Date Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:19:33 +1200
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Random832 wrote:
> I'm disputing that chained comparisons are used for the particular
> combinations that I am actually arguing should not be used in python.
> Such as a < b > c or a != b != c  [whereas a may or may not be equal to
> c]

I can't remember offhand seeing a != b != c written by a
mathematician, but if I did, I would suspect that he
*intended* it to imply a != c, even if that's not a strict
logical consequence of the notation.

-- 
Greg

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Re: True == 1 weirdness Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:47 -0400
  Re: True == 1 weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-18 23:14 +1000
    Re: True == 1 weirdness Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-18 09:40 -0400
      Re: True == 1 weirdness Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-09-19 19:19 +1200
    Re: True == 1 weirdness Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-09-18 14:24 -0400
    Re: True == 1 weirdness Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:12 -0400
      Re: True == 1 weirdness Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-09-19 09:23 +0300
    Re: True == 1 weirdness Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:13 -0600
    Re: True == 1 weirdness Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-18 17:21 -0400

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