What is the result of semantic conflation? Pour negative numbers the magnitude of an equation covaries with the value given and is equal to less than. This is not valid? Negative numbers at a greater distance from zero are less than those at a smaller distance. But they are not greater. One can solve a math problem in less than 2 generations. If mathematicians agree with this, then clarification in math texts and care on the part of math teachers may

enable the problem to be solved in no more than a generation.