One of the easiest ways to remember the 'greater than' and 'less than' signs is to imagine them as hungry alligators that always eat the larger number.For example, 5 5 represents 6 is greater than 5. The only difference is that while using a greater than sign, we write the larger number first followed by the sign and the smaller number. The same is the case with the greater than sign.

While drawing a less-than sign, the open side points towards the bigger number and the pointed-end points towards the smaller number. Thus, the less than greater than symbols are respectively. The synonyms for greater than are 'larger than', 'bigger than', 'higher than', and 'above'. It is just the opposite of less than inequality. The term 'greater than' means one value is larger than the other value. It is represented by the symbol '' is 'greater than symbol' in math. The synonyms for less than are 'lower than', 'below', 'fewer', and 'smaller than'. The term 'less than' means one value is smaller than the other value. Let us now learn about less than greater than symbols and inequalities. The symbol “< “ is used to represent less than inequality. In mathematics, the less than and the greater than symbols describe the inequality between two values. Given below are a few more examples showing the comparison between numbers using less than sign. Mathematically, it can be written as 14 < 32 using the less-than sign. Thus, we can say that 14 is less than 32. Here, we can see that 1 is smaller than 3. If the tens digits are the same, we will compare the digits at the ones place. While comparing the two-digit numbers, we first compare the tens place digits.

Let's compare the two-digit numbers, 32 and 14. To use the less than sign, we draw the wide-open side of the symbol towards the greater number and the pointed end towards the smaller number.

Less than or equal to symbol