Aside from the questionable inequalities, there's a missing closing parenthesis after the arguments on the first line, too.
EDIT: as has been pointed out, the inequalities are correct. The original code can e.g. be found here, including doc comments showing the intended meaning of the arguments: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogletrialexhibits/2012-04-2... (all the way at the end)