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