If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
@chris_bloke I love that we know the name of the guy who invented the equals sign, and I love that everyone was like, “Yep, two short parallel lines pretty much nails it.”
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