Equals sign
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Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Equal (disambiguation), Double hyphen, Assignment (computer science), Glossary of mathematical symbols#Equality, equivalence and similarity, and Equals (album).
The equals sign (British English) or equal sign (American English), also known as the equality sign, is the mathematical symbol =, which is used to indicate equality in some well-defined sense.[1] In an equation, it is placed between two expressions that have the same value, or for which one studies the conditions under which they have the same value.
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In Unicode | U+003D = EQUALS SIGN (=) |
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See also | U+2260 ≠ NOT EQUAL TO U+2248 ≈ ALMOST EQUAL TO U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO |
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In Unicode and ASCII, it has the code point U+003D.[2] It was invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde.