People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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If you read it aloud it doesn't sound right, but from a mathematical perspective it's saying the number of steps per day should be less than 500, which I think is the intention of the writer, no?
Yes that's the intention but they got the order wrong, it would make more sense if it was written as ateps/day < 500
It's so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
x>5 <=> 5>x 🤓
People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
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It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
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It's a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn't make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as "five hundred greater than steps a day" instead of parsing it as math.
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Challenge? Bro this is just life
I do believe that is the joke.
500 greater than steps per day
Yeah so I did the math. 500 is supposed greater than your number of steps per day.
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More than, 500 steps a day!? What do you think I am--active?
While it did use the greater-than symbol, it was arranged unconventionally. The way it's written is "500 is greater than steps per day," meaning don't walk too much, which fits with the rest of the author's theme.
That’s not how that works, though… It is 100 % what they meant, but not at all how you use greater than/less than signs in text.
You do......?
Let n be the number of steps
500 > n >= 0
For example
Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.
My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.
No. Steps/day is the unit. They used the symbol incorrectly
Was with you until no home cooked meals. Takeaways cost more than I spend on food for a week and I can make better food.
Make it buy a kg of every flavour of sausage at the butchers and eat them all over the month and the challenge works out a lot cheaper and tastier.
That's what makes it a challenge
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Takeout every day? Your monthly food bills gotta be over 1k
One Chipotle bowl could be two of my meals, just to be fair. That's $12 there. Add a cheeseburger or nuggets on a cheap menu and we are talking about $20 per day. 20 * 30 = $600, so still a lot.
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We’re probably talking about dollar menus, gas station food and Cicis pizza buffet.
Already 5.5/7. Woohoo And i am female... Doos that makes me male?
'Fraid so. Check your mailbox for the hardhat and a return label for the seatbelt cutter.
Funny, but I had a seatbelt cutter long before I realized I was a woman.
Wait a minute...
Seatbelt cutters kind of have a sixth sense about who they're supposed to be with and will seek out those in need.
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Finally a realistic challenge.
Just August? If I was organized enough to have a daily planner this is pretty much every page.
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But my home cooked meals slap!
I despise cooking but now do it almost exclusively because I can fart together a better meal than the cold, mushy, expensive, incorrect much of the time takeout.
I gotta decline the challenge over this point. Everything else seems reasonable.
Hmm...
- Daily porn actually gets boring. Porn will start to become "normal" and so you'll get desensitised. Why would I want to desensitise myself from porn?
- No thank you. I like the occasional cocktail, but alcohol every day!? Ew no.
- I already do this. :)
- I get 8 hours sleep minimum. Can't get less. I'll die.
- My job involves biking... That's technically not taking steps.
- I already don't do this.
- That's too bloody expensive! You think I have a tree that grows money!?
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Completed it
Ew, no.
That's called middle age. You're on!
The first two seem too loosely defined. Does it count if I just log on to e621.net, select latest/popular and then close the window down? Or do I actually have to watch porn and masturbate to completion? Does daily alcohol count if I drink a Bud Light, or make myself a fancy cocktail? Or do I need to get blackout drunk?
Toughest for me would probably be 5-8 hours of uninterrupted gaming (I don't have the attention span for it anymore) and running on 5 hours or less of sleep.
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This is already my life, just more gaming
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