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I know there is a syntactically correct way that everyone knows and accepts, but it does depend on what the expression is.
Do you write it 5 > 3 or 3 < 5?
I don't understand your question, both of those are correct.
Exactly, both of those statements convey the same information but are encoded in different ways.
To a foreigner, seeing the > < brackets may be more contextual than it is symbolic.
They are expressed the same principles. I'd even say they are "encoded" in the same way.