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    27 days ago

    I am also an idiot who needs mnemonics to remember incredibly basic stuff. In a similar vein to OOP, I did a PhD in chemistry with substantial involvement with chiral structures and still don’t really know left from right… but I never understood this one. Smaller number on the small side, bigger number on the big side always seemed really intuitive.

    Also in a theoretical physics context I think of those symbols as Dirac notation more often than inequalities, but then I’m not a physicist.