Friday, July 15, 2016

Names for Inequalities

  • Chained inequalities (Wikipedia). 
  • Combined inequalities (Sullivan Algebra & Trigonometry).

Are there more? What is most common in your experience?


  1. "Inequality between more than two things?" Those terms make them sound like second-class citizens.

    1. Well, admittedly the expression needs to be defined in terms of simpler inequalities (with an "and" conjunction). For example: a < b is legitimate syntax in any programming language, but a < x < b is not.