![]() ![]() ❮ 276E HEAVY LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT ❭ 276D MEDIUM RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT ❬ 276C MEDIUM LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT X (mathematical left angle bracket - 27E8) X (single left-pointing angle quotation mark - 2039) ⋧ 22E7 GREATER-THAN BUT NOT EQUIVALENT TO ⋛ 22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN ⋚ 22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN X (right-pointing double angle quotation mark - 00BB) X (left-pointing double angle quotation mark - 00AB) › 203A SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK ‹ 2039 SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK » 00BB RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK « 00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK X (mathematical right angle bracket - 27E9) X (single right-pointing angle quotation mark - 203A) Mostly it comes down to one of the following four, with name assignments to numeric code points given as defined by the Unicode Standard, along with some of the more salient character properties like their general category and whether they are to be considered punctuation, a math character, and/or a type of quotation mark: In handwritten manuscripts and on primitive old-school typewriters there is no real difference, but in modern representations of actual characters and the fonts that use these, there is. It might be a less-than sign, an angle quotation mark, or an angle bracket. The answer depends on precisely which character you mean. The best way to remember the direction is that the sign will point at the smallest number like an arrow.You asked what the “technical name” is those technical names are given in bold below, although there are others less formal as well. When teaching greater than and less than signs, the biggest mistake is writing the symbols the wrong way around.įortunately, the signs are the same shape, just in reverse directions. We could also think of the less than sign as a crocodile that wants to eat the larger number. ![]() Think of the symbol as an arrowhead which always points towards the smaller number. We can use the same two methods that we used previously to remember which comparison sign represents ‘less than’. We know this because 6 is on the left of 8 on the number line. In the example below, we can see that 6 is a smaller number than 8. ![]() The crocodile is hungry and wants to eat the larger number. This arrowhead points to the smaller number.Īnother way to remember which symbol is the greater than sign, is to think of the symbol as a crocodile. One way that we can remember which sign to put in between the numbers is to think of the comparison sign as an arrowhead. So, we say that three is greater than one. In the example below, we can see that 3 is a larger number than 1. The further we go to the right on our number line, the larger our number.Ī number is greater than another number if it is further to the right of it on the number line. To determine if a number is greater than or less than another number we can look at a number line. We will use some examples of greater than or less than signs to look at ways to remember the direction in which the greater and less than signs are drawn when comparing two numbers. This is read as ‘four is less than five’. We read this as ‘five is greater than four’. The greater than sign means ‘bigger than’ or ‘larger than’. ![]() In this lesson we are comparing numbers and writing comparison symbols in between the numbers to show which is the larger number. ![]()
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