Much Less Than

Type it

Ways to write the Much Less Than symbol
UnicodeU+226A
LaTeX\ll
HTML entity≪
Character≪

Meaning

States that the value on the left is smaller than the value on the right by a large factor, usually enough that it can be neglected beside it. Compare with Less Than and Much Greater Than.

How to read it

ε ≪ 1

is read “epsilon is much less than one”.

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