strange symbol

Fernando Gouvea fqgouvea at colby.edu
Wed Jun 3 20:22:27 CEST 2020


I looked but did not see. Thanks, everyone, and sorry to have bothered 
the list!

Fernando

On 6/3/2020 1:42 PM, Gray, Gary L wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> <nekednoiefaeonfm.png>
>>
>> Any change someone has created that symbol for LaTeX?
>>
>> Fernando
>>
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>
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