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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 17:13, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article disagrees:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_(mathematics)#Chained_notation
> 
> Although the reference to Python leads one to suspect that this could
> be based more on Python's semantics than on actual mathematics.

Also, it says "different directions", but the provided example doesn't
actually *show* different directions (i.e. mixing less-operators with
greater-operators). The provided example "a < b = c <= d" does allow you
to infer relationships between all participants: a < b, a < c, a < d, b
= c, b <= d, c <= d.