Packet 4: Bonus 3
Answer the following about ways to check if two numbers are not equal in programming. For 10 points each:
[10m] Some programs, like Google Sheets, use these two characters in succession to check if two numbers are not equal. HTML tags always feature these two characters.
ANSWER: less than sign AND greater than sign [accept answers in either order; accept angle brackets; reject partial answers; reject answers mentioning “or equal to”]
[10e] C-like languages use one of these symbols before a single equals sign to check if two numbers are not equal. This symbol commonly denotes the NOT operator and factorial.
ANSWER: exclamation point [or bang or exclamation mark]
[10h] Checking if two numbers are not equal may produce unexpected results with floating point numbers; as such, a better way of comparison accounts for relative approximation error with this Greek letter. A string of length zero is sometimes represented by lambda or this letter.
ANSWER: epsilon (A string of length zero is the empty string.)
<Computer Science — Andrew Gao> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 11.20 | 92% | 20% | 0% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 15 | 9.33 | 87% | 7% | 0% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |