<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>I realize that typographers use the "!" symbol to denote an exclamation. Who decided that symbol would denote an exclamation?</div>
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<div>The "!" symbol looks like a "i" turned upwards-down. How does an upwards-down "i" symbol connote an exclamation?</div>
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<div>The "!" symbol is used in other places where it has nothing to do with an exclamation. For example, it is used in HTML and XML such as this: <!DOCTYPE html></div>
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<div>I suspect there are many palces where it is used and has nothing to do with an exclamation.</div>
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<div>So why is the "!" symbol named "exclamation mark"?</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 16. September 2020 um 12:43 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Roger L Costello via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Why is the "<" symbol named the "less-than sign"?</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Hi Folks,<br/>
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Just curious ...<br/>
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I realize that mathematicians use the "<" symbol to denote the less-than relation. Who decided that that symbol would denote the less-than relation?<br/>
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The "<" symbol looks like a "v" turned sideways. How does a sideways "v" symbol connote less-than?<br/>
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The "<" symbol is used in other places where it has nothing to do with less-than. For example, it is used in HTML and XML such as this: <body><br/>
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I suspect there are many places where it is used and has nothing to do with less-than.<br/>
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So why is the "<" symbol named the "less-than sign"?<br/>
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/Roger<br/>
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