Sorry Badbusdriver -- you write great stuff but on this (admittedly tiny!) matter, I'm afraid that you're mistaken. In maths/science/engineering the '>' symbol always means 'strictly greater than' and is always written before the relevant number.
No apology needed Tester, at least not from you.
Sorry Peter!, this is news to me, but then maths/science/engineering are all a bit outside of my comfort zone!.
So is there a symbol which means 'up to'?
Well, 'up to' means 'less than' (if it doesn't include the value) or 'less than or equal' (if the value is included, so ...
Symbol for 'less than', sometimes called 'strictly less than', is <
Symbol for 'less than or equal' is ≤ which, as Avant says, is often typed as <= if you can't be bothered to find the special symbol in Word or whatever e.g. up to and including a Volvo 5-cyclinder would be written ≤5.
And while we're on the subject, in case anyone is still awake, 'greater than or equal' is ≥ (can be typed as >= using a standard keyboard) so anything from a BMW 3-litre diesel upwards would have ≥6 cylinders.
Here endeth the lesson.
Edited by Tester on 17/05/2020 at 21:14
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