i wasn’t answering the OP, just riffing on the two previous posts. 
I did not go through the answers but if it was not said: Think of the > as the mouth of an alligator. The alligator always eats the bigger number. Hope this helps 
Hee hee!
Ninja’ed! I was thinking of posting that too! It’s so useful to know, any time you need to figure how many gallons of paint you need to paint a cylindrical water tank! 
IIRC, I learned it from one of Martin Gardner’s books, way back when.
But the final phrase “. . . how to circles mensurate” is weird.
Water tank nothing - p to 30 places means, if you know the diameter of our galaxy accurately, you can calculate its circumference (a third of a million light-years, give or take) accurate to less than 1% of the wavelength of light:
Milky Way diameter: 10[sup]5[/sup] ly
1 light-year: 10 million million km = 10[sup]16[/sup] m = 10[sup]25[/sup] nm
Milky Way diameter in nanometres: 10[sup]30[/sup]
Wavelength of light: 400 - 700 nm
The phrasing’s odd, but “mensurate” means “measure” more or less, and “how to mensurate circles” would (a) not rhyme and (b) give the wrong answer (and hence completely ruin your calculations).
Spock: “To paint your water tank will require approximately 23.475636587687694635485996947 gallons of liquid pigment mixture.”
Besides the weird word order, “how to circles mensurate” sounds like they’re talking about the monthly reproductive “cycle” (get it?) of geometric objects.
Fascinating.
I assume you’re taking into account the thickness of the layer of paint, and the deviation from perfect circularity of the shape of the tank?