Why is the "<" symbol named the "less-than sign"?
Richard Wordingham
richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Wed Sep 16 08:07:34 CDT 2020
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:36:11 +0200
Karl Pentzlin via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> According to the German Wikipedia:
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergleichszeichen#Geschichte
> the symbols were devised 1631 by Thomas Harriot in his book "Artis
> analyticae praxis".
> (Until now, the English wikipedia lacks this information.)
I gave an English Wikipedia reference earlier in this thread.
Richard.
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