Well this is just a matter of taking strict or large inequality by default. It is true that in french speech, inequality is large by default, while it is strict

Well this is just a matter of taking strict or large inequality by default. It is true that in french speech, inequality is large by default, while it is strict by default in english. Personally i prefer the french convention because i prefer the phrase "strictly less than" to "less than or equal to". In fact that phrase preference must be somewhat consensual since the usual way to talk about large inequality in english (at least when comparing to 0) is to talk about the negation of the converse relation ("not greater than"). This is why we have symbolic notations.