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Dec. 13th, 2015 at 9:12 AM
The equal sign, "=", was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "no two things can be more equal."
(from TodayIFoundOut.com)
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