less (than) or equal (to)

English translation: less than or equal to

00:05 Nov 5, 2012

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Science - Computers: Systems, Networks / informatics

English term or phrase: less (than) or equal (to)

“When the inventory level is less or equal r,… ”

Shouldn't it be rather: “When the inventory level is less than or equal to r, …”

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Yes; strictly, "the inventory level is less or equal r" is not grammatically correct. "less or equal" is probably influenced by how computer programmers read "A <= B" in the definition of an algorithm. (I've written "<=" to represent "less or equal"; in an actual programming language it may be written "<=", ".le." or possibly something else). They probably read it as "less or equal" because that is a smaller number of words and the meaning is clear, but in grammatically correct English it is "less than or equal to".

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less than or equal to

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