Take the 2-minute tour ×  When typing < or > in LaTeX and
compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols
appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
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table in a paper. –  biased_estimator Aug 28 '10 at 2:44
@ShreevatsaR: "This example holds true for all cases where n >=
3". –  SabreWolfy Feb 2 '12 at 13:02 add comment  4 Answers  up
vote 79 down vote accepted  Geoffs tip with \textless and
\textgreater will work well for you. However, you could type
these symbols < and > directly in your editor and they would be
correctly printed if you use the recommended font encoding, Cork
resp. T1:   Have a look at the T1 encoding table, search for the
symbols < and >. Afterwards, open the OT1 encoding table, which
is the default. At the two corresponding places you will find
the upside down exclamation resp. quotation mark. That should
explain it.  For further reasons, why you should use T1
encoding, have a look at this ques