strange symbol

[Gray, Gary L]

It is in the AMS symbol package as \gtrless.

On Jun 3, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea at colby.edu<mailto:fqgouvea at colby.edu>> wrote:


I am looking at a mathematics paper from 1894 and found that the author uses stacked > and < to denote inequality and incongruence:

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Any change someone has created that symbol for LaTeX?

Fernando

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