Talk:Less-than sign

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Does any credible source call this a "fewer-than" sign? --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:57, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In mathematics, this symbol (<) is not known only as a "less-than" sign. Not all operations in math are strictly "left-to-right" and many approaches to solutions, especially in higher level mathematics, can start from the right side of an equation. Simply speaking, the inequality "6-y < 4-x" can be interpreted as both "six minus y is less than four minus x" and "four minus x is greater than six minus y." This applies to all inequality signs.

U+003C and U+003E incorrectly linked to "Angle bracket"

Special:WhatLinksHere/Angle bracket indicates that numerous articles about code pages have links to "Angle bracket" instead of < and >. Could somebody reduce the confusion by a bot? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 20:04, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] is an example of this and other possible fixes. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 20:26, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

<< in bash

<< will also work as a left shift operator in bash, if you use an arithmetic expression like $((x << 4)). It can be a bit ambiguous in complex scripts (also for script interpreters) to determine whether << stands for the here document or a bitwise left shift. -andy 77.191.208.143 (talk) 19:56, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2022 IP vandalism

Just asking the community, should we add page protection, even if its minor? ProPork3455 (talk) 02:19, 03 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Propork3455: Since it's just one IP, blocking that IP should be sufficient. I have already reported it. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:22, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Even so, I have requested IP protection as this is a stable article with no significant improvements since quite a long time ago. If someone really does have something new to say, then it is no great hardship to make a request at the talk page. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:56, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Precedes

@D.Lazard and Muldoonsamuel55: At Less-than_sign#Mathematics, I have tried to produce a text that consolidates the info about the symbol $\prec$ from Glossary of mathematical symbols with the Muldoonsamuel55's recent contribution.

The less-than-sign is sometimes used to represent a total order, partial order or preorder. However, the symbol $\prec$ is often used when it would be confusing or not convenient to use <. In mathematical writing using LaTeX, the TeX commmand is \prec. The Unicode code point is U+227A ≺ PRECEDES.

Does that make sense? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 19:01, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]