diff --git a/bin/verilator b/bin/verilator
index dba8c6479..e170797cd 100755
--- a/bin/verilator
+++ b/bin/verilator
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ change the SystemC modules instantiated.
 Tune the inlining of modules.  The default value of 2000 specifies that up
 to 2000 new operations may be added to the model by inlining, if more than
 this number of operations would result, the module is not inlined.  Larger
-values, or a value <= 1 will inline everything, will lead to longer compile
+values, or a value < 1 will inline everything, will lead to longer compile
 times, but potentially faster runtimes.  This setting is ignored for very
 small modules; they will always be inlined, if allowed.