• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      It’s a shorthand way of writing ≠ digitally without needing to know the alt code or where it is in your mobile devices keyboard

        • Gladaed@feddit.de
          2·
          9 months ago

          It is not a composite expression but a single expression made up from 2 letters. And this is not a widespread notation.

    • Funkytom467@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      != isn’t universal, i’ve mostly seen it used in programming.

      Otherwise ≠ is the symbol we use in maths and generally the more common one.

      =/= is just the worst rendition of ≠ for people that don’t know how to write it or are too lazy to go find it.

      • mac@infosec.pub
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yeah =/= is honestly a little confusing. I know != isn’t universal though, gotta start making sure to use ≠ instead

        • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee
          1·
          9 months ago

          You’re definite not wrong, I actually went to use “!=” first. But then thought if someone wasn’t familiar with programming they might not get it, so I went with the “=/=” hoping it would make sense to more people. Forgot that we’re on lemmy and the audience here would generally understand lol. Didn’t know ≠ existed though, will probably use that from now on. Nice!