Greater than
Alternatively referred to as an angle bracket, the greater than is a symbol ( > ) that is found on all computer keyboards, commonly on the same key as the period on U.S. keyboards. The greater than symbol resembles an arrow pointing to the right and is commonly used in math and computer programming.
With computers the greater than is often seen on the command line prompt. Below are two examples of command line prompts using the greater than symbols.
MS-DOS prompt:
C:\Windows>
Linux / Unix prompt:
hope>
Below is an example of how the greater than could be used in math. In the below example the statement is showing that 10 is greater than 2.
10 > 2
Finally, below is an example of how the greater than could be used in computer programming. In this example the if statement is performed if the variable $myvalue is greater than 100. If the variable was less than 100 this section of code would be skipped.
if ($myvalue > 100) {
print "More than 100.\n";
}
- Computer keyboard keys and explanations.
- Information about how to display a greater than on a web page can be found on our special extended HTML characters page.
Also see: Append symbol, GT, Keyboard definitions, Less than, Redirect