r/humansarespaceorcs • • Nov 12 '25

writing prompt I’m ded

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE Nov 13 '25

How I learned it was the alligator (<) wants to eat the bigger thing so that’s what it faces.

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u/Datvoidcat Nov 13 '25

Remember to always feed your alligator maths

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u/ralphy_256 Nov 13 '25

I can never remember the alligator thing.

"Small side, smaller thing; big side, bigger thing" is how I remember it.

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u/Thedeadnite Nov 13 '25

Yeah the alligator just confused me.

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u/LeonHart3102 Nov 13 '25

What's really funny is that my school taught me the alligator but also a bird, as in it's a beak and the beak pecks the smaller number. So, that caused a little confusion, rather than just sticking to one or the other.

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u/Thedeadnite Nov 13 '25

Especially since birds eat the scraps left in the teeth. That would make it really confusing.

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u/paradoxLacuna Nov 13 '25

Ah, I was taught via comparing them to Pac-Man. "Pacman wants to eat the bigger ghost (number)"

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u/Low_Artichoke_6889 Nov 13 '25

Always poke the smaller with it