[deathanatos]

If you read

  Pull the lever when x < 0

aloud, you must read it as "Pull the lever when x is less than zero." Thus, "<" is "less than", and ">" is "greater than", for that reason specifically.

Also, Unicode calls it U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN and U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN.

At least, that's the terms that the article is using, and I think there's sufficient context to identify that, and go along w/ it.

[noobly]

Well, and I don’t mean to be strictly pebdabtic, but you could read it as “when 0 is greater than x”, but of course it takes more overhead and I see why I was wrong. Thanks, it’s getting late today so I’m glad I managed to learn something before the days up.