Maybe, this sentence, out of context. The rest of the post makes it abundantly clear that the ages of these things go:
mountains -> bones -> dinosaurs
The poster may either be a victim of Poe’s Law, in which case their “joke” wasn’t very funny, or they could be making the logical deduction as you describe but as a mistake. I thought it was the latter.
There’s no mistake, he’s just poking fun at the imprecise language used in the article. We all know what the author meant but only because English is more forgiving than math. I’m not saying I was rolling on the floor or anything, but it wasn’t that bad of a joke imo
Mountains.age !> dinosaurs.age, thus mountains.age <= dinosaurs.age
mountains.age > bones.age
So dinosaurs.age => mountains.age > bones.age
And dinosaurs.age > bones.age
His logical reasoning skills are sound though, as is his sarcastic humor.
Maybe, this sentence, out of context. The rest of the post makes it abundantly clear that the ages of these things go:
mountains -> bones -> dinosaurs
The poster may either be a victim of Poe’s Law, in which case their “joke” wasn’t very funny, or they could be making the logical deduction as you describe but as a mistake. I thought it was the latter.
There’s no mistake, he’s just poking fun at the imprecise language used in the article. We all know what the author meant but only because English is more forgiving than math. I’m not saying I was rolling on the floor or anything, but it wasn’t that bad of a joke imo