to the type of the second operand, or vice versa.
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The equality operators <code>==</code> and <code>!=</code> apply
to operands of <i>comparable</i> types.
The ordering operators <code>&lt;</code>, <code>&lt;=</code>, <code>&gt;</code>, and <code>&gt;=</code>
apply to operands of <i>ordered</i> types.
These terms and the result of the comparisons are defined as follows:
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