Why is the "<" symbol named the "less-than sign"?

[Andrea Giammarchi]

easy to visualize too, same for me too ... it's actually semantic, if you
don't think it's a "v" but an equal = that rotates axes to indicate 0 < 1,
1 = 1, 2 > 1 😉

also, what's the meaning of winking? (kidding)

best regards

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:19 PM Shriramana Sharma via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> When I was a child and first taught < and > at school, I figured that
> they were derived from the equals sign =, except that the bigger
> number has the bigger separation between the lines and the smaller
> number has the smaller separation becoming none. So I do see meaning
> in it.
>
> And it was obviously named the less than sign long before it was used
> for XML tags.
>
> --
> Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀭𑀫𑀡𑀰𑀭𑁆𑀫𑀸
>
>
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