[Blindmath] Inequalities in the Nemeth

[Elise Berkley]

Thank you all for the help.  On with my homework.  Elise
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I knew that part, but I'm curious as to how he came up with the dot pattern
which represents "or equal to"in this context.
On 5/6/2014 12:36 PM, Susan Jolly wrote:
> I would like to add two related and important pieces of information 
> about the nemeth symbols for less than and greater than.  First, the 
> dot patterns formed by the raised dots of the two braille cells 
> side-by-side resemble the appearance of the print symbols for less 
> than and greater than. This is why Dr. Nemeth chose these two braille 
> symbols. Second, you can remember which one is which because the dot 5 
> cell is always closer to or pointing to the smaller quantity since it 
> is only one dot whereas the dots 4 and 6 cell is always closer to the 
> larger quantity since it is two dots.
>
> SusanJ
>
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