strange symbol

[barbara beeton]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, Fernando Gouvea wrote:

> I am looking at a mathematics paper from 1894 and found that the author uses 
> stacked > and < to denote inequality and incongruence:
>
> Any change someone has created that symbol for LaTeX?

It's rhere as \gtrless and available in quite a few packages,
including amssymb.
 						-- bb

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