Galaxy Zoo Starburst Talk

How to write the symbols "less than" and "greater than"?

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    These symbols are, obviously, essential for discussion of anything astronomically scientific.

    At the same time, they are central to the flavor of HTML which this version of Zooniverse Talk uses, so central that you can't even use "Code" (by clicking on the "101 010" icon, between the double quote and image ones)!

    So, how do you write them? How can you write "with a redshift of greater than 0.02 but less than 0.10"? Or z > 0.02 and z < 0.10 (0.02 < z < 0.10, in compact form)?

    Over in Galaxy Zoo Talk, there's a long thread called Interface bugs. It's now 14 pages long, and in that (and this) version of Talk you can't point to a particular post (there's no unique URL). However, on page 13, the 3rd and 2nd last posts give the answer! The first is by alwarren56 ("July 12 2013 1:57 PM"), the second by me ("July 12 2013 3:17 PM"); I'll try copying them:

    @JeanTate: if you want to use the less than symbol, try using the html entity name instead like this: <

    (that's &lt;)

    See this page for a list - http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

    And mine:

    Thanks.

    Let's see now ...

    &lt; gives: <

    &gt; gives: >

    And linking this to ASCII:

    &#60; gives: <

    &#62; gives: >

    Terrific! 😄

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  • trouille by trouille scientist, moderator, admin

    I had no idea this was happening till you pointed it out. Thanks!

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