greater then less then?

[PR0METHEUS]

A long time ago it was a fishlike animal.


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It's greater thAn, not thEn.

jezz??? now im going to get spelling lessons (double now?)? The only reason I spell it with an e is because i say it with an e. I just get used to spelling it this way so shush.

Fixed, sort of. Jezz isn't even a word. Jeez might be slightly more appropriate, but again, it's not a word. You can have one 'now' in that sentance, but not two! You should always capitalize 'I'.

So in other words, not only do you spell 'than' wrong, you also speak it incorrectly as well?

[[SD]happynoobing]

ha, i remember i used to think the pointy end is the bigger side cuz... well, when u r asked which number is bigger, obviously the one it's pointing to is

but i just remember it... like how u remember 5 is 5 and 6 is 6

[SidiousX]

I was just taught what the symbol meant without alligators or pacman.

[fckerr]

I was just taught what the symbol meant without alligators or pacman.

That. But I had hard time to understand what was this thread about lol

[Amarisa]

A long time ago it was a fishlike animal.


off-topic

It's greater thAn, not thEn.

jezz??? now im going to get spelling lessons (double now?)? The only reason I spell it with an e is because i say it with an e. I just get used to spelling it this way so shush.

Fixed, sort of. Jezz isn't even a word. Jeez might be slightly more appropriate, but again, it's not a word. You can have one 'now' in that sentance, but not two! You should always capitalize 'I'.

So in other words, not only do you spell 'than' wrong, you also speak it incorrectly as well?

i ask a question and i get this? *facepalm*

[Starrie]

I can remember the mnemonic our teacher used when it was first introduced to us in primary school.

"Less than" is "kleiner als" in German, "more than" is "größer als".

"<" looks like a part of a "k" => "|<leiner als"
so ">" is the opposite.

That's how I remembered them , but once you work with them more, you automatically use them correctly.

If you actually think about the shape of the signs, it's self explanatory (cf. NuclearSilo's explanation )

Same in Dutch: |<leiner dan. I've learned it that way.