Looking at the question we can see that it says:
We should know what these symbols mean:
stands for something less than the other, for example:
We can say that 2 is less than 5 so in a symbolic form it can be written as,
Similarly,
stands for something greater than the other, for example:
We can say that 7 is greater than 5, in a symbolic form it can be written as,
So here, means that, 42153 is greater than 35214.