diff --git a/src/main/java/com/firebase/tubesock/Base64.java b/src/main/java/com/firebase/tubesock/Base64.java
index f31befb..a77147d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/firebase/tubesock/Base64.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/firebase/tubesock/Base64.java
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *
  * On byte arrays the encoder is about 20% faster than Jakarta Commons Base64 Codec for encode and
  * about 50% faster for decoding large arrays. This implementation is about twice as fast on very small
- * arrays (&lt 30 bytes). If source/destination is a <code>String</code> this
+ * arrays (&lt; 30 bytes). If source/destination is a <code>String</code> this
  * version is about three times as fast due to the fact that the Commons Codec result has to be recoded
  * to a <code>String</code> from <code>byte[]</code>, which is very expensive.<br><br>
  *