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Matt Buck

The "a-ha" moment for me (that probably came too late in life) was that what's being represented with =, <, and > is the relative values, and that's represented by the space between the ends of the lines on that side.

With =, the lines are parallel, so the values are equal. With <, the distance between the two points is smaller on the left hand side, meaning it's the smaller value, and with > it's the reverse.

 
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Matthijs Wensveen

This. I don't actually understand how people cannot see this. Most mathematical operators are quite arbitrary, but these three actually make sense.