This symbol should be ≤ (or $\leq$ if the first one doesn't render): that is, "is less than or equal to". The typesetter for this book clearly hasn't done a very good job of it, and seems to have run into an encoding issue.
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Bumbble Comm
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This is just a misprint or an encoding problem the actual notation is ' ≤ '.
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user688306
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I believe the author made a mistake and meant to write $\leq$.
This symbol should be ≤ (or $\leq$ if the first one doesn't render): that is, "is less than or equal to". The typesetter for this book clearly hasn't done a very good job of it, and seems to have run into an encoding issue.