Quick question about this inequality

  • Context: High School 
  • Thread starter Thread starter kent davidge
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Inequality
Join the discussion
Ask a follow-up here, or get your own question answered by working scientists, mathematicians and engineers — people, not an autocomplete.
Real named experts · corrections over time · the nuance an AI answer skips
2 replies · 1K views
kent davidge
Messages
931
Reaction score
56
For concreteness, let me consider real numbers.

If ##A > B## and ##B \sim C##, does it mean that ##A \sim C##?

If instead ##B = C##, then obviously that wouldn't imply ##A = C##.
 
Physics news on Phys.org
I already figured the answer to my question.

Simple case would be: ##10.5 \sim 10## and ##100 > 10.5##. That ##100 \sim 10## is absurd.

So no.
 
  • Like
Likes   Reactions: jedishrfu
kent davidge said:
For concreteness, let me consider real numbers.
If ##A > B## and ##B \sim C##, does it mean that ##A \sim C##?
For clarity, does ##B \sim C## mean that B is approximately equal to C? I.e., is ##B \approx C##?
The symbol you used can mean "congruent to" or "similar to," so it wasn't clear to me what you meant.