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# Frankly 'up to ten items' is more confusing.
Does that include 10 items?
10 items or less is quite clear - it is 10 items or less than 10 items.
less fewer.
Why do they not just change it to fewer, rather than sparking off a whole new debate? D:
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 12:16, archived)
# True. It would be better indicated as the half-open interval (0, 10] which would also make clear that you can't have 0 items.
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 12:23, archived)
# it makes no bloody odds anyway
people still come through with trolleys with 200 items in them
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 12:26, archived)
# last time i saw a half-open interval
was in the whiteshiths c compiler manual, about 20 years ago

i say yay for half-open intervals
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 12:31, archived)
# like a chav in tesco
would understand that hahaha
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 12:32, archived)
# because
the plain english society think that Tesco's customers would be confused by the word fewer,
(, Sun 31 Aug 2008, 14:43, archived)