minus-squareZeshade@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Spectrum rulelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoTotal ordering doesn’t mean that the order is strict though. You can have multiple individuals with the same level of gayness. Total ordering means all elements are comparable (=< would be a suitable relation), not that all elements have their individual rank (< relation). A spectrum implies that the set is totally ordered but not necessarily strictly ordered. linkfedilink
minus-squareZeshade@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Hot Potato Licenselinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoThey should’ve said “all other inhabitants” to remove the ambiguity. linkfedilink
Total ordering doesn’t mean that the order is strict though. You can have multiple individuals with the same level of gayness.
Total ordering means all elements are comparable (=< would be a suitable relation), not that all elements have their individual rank (< relation).
A spectrum implies that the set is totally ordered but not necessarily strictly ordered.