• Zeshade@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Total ordering doesn’t mean that the order is strict though. You can have multiple individuals with the same level of gayness.

    Total ordering means all elements are comparable (=< would be a suitable relation), not that all elements have their individual rank (< relation).

    A spectrum implies that the set is totally ordered but not necessarily strictly ordered.