>The bigger number is at the bigger end, that's the whole point of the symbols. It probably has to do with how it was taught. I was never taught "the bigger nu

>The bigger number is at the bigger end, that's the whole point of the symbols. It probably has to do with how it was taught. I was never taught "the bigger number is at the bigger end", it was simply "> means greater than and < means less than" and we were supposed to memorize that. The alligator mneumonic is just a way of recovering the original meaning.