| Also known 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 $myvalue is greater than
100.
if ($myvalue > 100) {
print "More than 100.\n";
}
Also see: GT, Keyboard
definitions, Less than
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