• Funkytom467@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    != isn’t universal, i’ve mostly seen it used in programming.

    Otherwise ≠ is the symbol we use in maths and generally the more common one.

    =/= is just the worst rendition of ≠ for people that don’t know how to write it or are too lazy to go find it.

    • mac@infosec.pub
      41·
      9 months ago

      Yeah =/= is honestly a little confusing. I know != isn’t universal though, gotta start making sure to use ≠ instead

      • squidspinachfootball
        1·
        9 months ago

        You’re definite not wrong, I actually went to use “!=” first. But then thought if someone wasn’t familiar with programming they might not get it, so I went with the “=/=” hoping it would make sense to more people. Forgot that we’re on lemmy and the audience here would generally understand lol. Didn’t know ≠ existed though, will probably use that from now on. Nice!