Definition:Inequality/Opposite Sense
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Definition
Two inequalities are of opposite sense if and only if the direction of the ordering which the inequality is different.
That is, whether it is:
- a greater than relation: $a > b$
or:
These two are of opposite sense.
Also see
- Results about inequalities can be found here.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inequality
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inequality: 2.