Now, less than is just, if you haven't used it before, it's just the operator you'd expect, it's comparing two things and it's going to return either true or false depending on whether the first argument is false less than the second argument.

现在，小于这个符号是，如果你之前没用过它的话，它就是你期望的那个运算符，它会比较两个独享,然后基于第一个参数是不是,小于第二个参数,返回true或者。

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