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May 4, 2021 at 0:30	history	closed	Edwin Ashworth KillingTime Benjamin Harman Greybeard Hot Licks		Not suitable for this site
May 3, 2021 at 23:24	answer	added	turkey		timeline score: 1
May 3, 2021 at 22:04	comment	added	Benjamin Harman		Were an airline to post, "When weight is > 10 kg, a bag cannot be a carry-on but must be checked," then passengers having a carry-on bag weighing exactly 10 kg ARE NOT made to check the bag. Were an airline to instead post, "When weight 10+ kg, a bag cannot be a carry-on but must be checked," then passengers having a carry-on bag weighing exactly 10 kg ARE made to check the bag. You may think the distinction is splitting hairs, but trust me, it isn't. If an airline posted "> 10 kg," then tried to make passengers with a carry-on weighing 10 kg check them, there'd be hell to pay.
May 3, 2021 at 21:47	comment	added	Benjamin Harman		I’m voting to close this question because it's asking to choose which is more appropriate of two given choices based on a false assumption or premise that the two choices mean the same thing when they don't mean the same thing. It's like asking which of two apples is better when one of them isn't an apple at all but an orange. So I'm voting to close because this is a loaded question in that it is based on the false premise that "> 10 kg" means the same thing as "10+ kg." They aren't equal choices. The more appropriate one would be whichever one means what's intended.
May 3, 2021 at 21:36	comment	added	Benjamin Harman		Even if we accept those writing conventions, which many of us do as we often see them used in magazine articles and such, your question is moot. That's because you're asking which is more appropriate, as if they mean the same thing when they don't. Writing "When weight is > 10 kg" isn't the same as writing "When weight is 10+ kg" because "> 10 kg" means "more than 10 kilograms" but "10+ kg" means "10 or more kilograms." "10+ kg" includes 10 kilograms, but "> 10 kg" doesn't. It'd have to say "≥ 10kg" to be the same as "10+ kg," but unlike "+" and ">," "≥" isn't conventionally used in writing.
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May 4, 2021 at 0:32
May 3, 2021 at 18:50	comment	added	Edwin Ashworth		I’m voting to close this question because it is not a question about standard everyday English (see GEdgar's comment). It could well be on-topic at Mathematics.SE as part of standard maths shorthand.
May 3, 2021 at 17:40	comment	added	Stuart F		I'd agree that while > is well known in maths, I've come across non-mathematical people who don't know the difference between > and <.
May 3, 2021 at 17:20	answer	added	GEdgar		timeline score: 1
May 3, 2021 at 15:48	comment	added	GEdgar		In Math you do the > version. But perhaps not in English? Actually in English you write it out: "more than ten kg". I guess I only see "10+" in on-line shorthand; you should not assume everyone knows what it means.
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