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The equations you've posted do not make mathematical sense. If they were in an actually GRE, there must have been some kind of error. I'm guessing the equations used some special font that wasn't available on the computer you used.
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I'm not actually the one who took the GRE, I'm simply posting the questions on behalf of a friend. So, it's possible that you are correct, and the person made some kind of error in reading the question. I admit that the questions did not make much sense to me, as posted, but it's been about four years since I'd taken a rigorous mathematics course, so I thought I would try asking here.
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Actually, Wikipedia has the double prime symbol here. Thing is, it doesn't seem to make sense in Manji's context, so either there is context missing or as The Rabbit pointed out, some rendering error.
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Kind of offtopic, but why use a url shortener? You're already shortening the visible url by setting the link text to "double prime". What's the point of hiding the actual url?
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2) The GRE made it up. They have questions where they first define some new operator, then ask you to apply that operator in a different situation. I think this second is most likely. If so, the only definition that mattered was the one the GRE gave.
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quote:Originally posted by ricree101: Kind of offtopic, but why use a url shortener? You're already shortening the visible url by setting the link text to "double prime". What's the point of hiding the actual url?
This forum doesn't render URLs with parentheses in them properly, which is the case with quite a few Wikipedia articles.
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Agree with fugu. I'm a GRE prep instructor, so I have to say that the questions as posted are incomplete. The GRE doesn't use the prime notation, so without more information, the symbol is undefined and unsolvable.
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Glenn: while the example is a bit confused due to the use of the (elsewhere defined) operator, in a comparison problem, the answerer will give an answer indicating the larger column, that the columns are equal in value, or that there is insufficient information to decide.
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