{"id":278,"date":"2009-06-01T18:48:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virusfonts.com\/news\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-06-25T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:50:23","slug":"278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barnbrook.net\/278\/","title":{"rendered":"="},"content":{"rendered":"
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The equal sign<\/a>\u00a0was first used by\u00a0Robert Recorde<\/a>\u00a0in The Whetstone of Witte (1557) in order \u201cto auoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes\u00a0: is equalle to\u00a0: I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parralles, or Gemowe lines of one lengthe, thus : ==, bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle\u201d.<\/p>\n Prior to its present incarnation the equal sign was often expressed with the word aequales<\/em> that was sometimes abbreviated to just aeq<\/em>, (which would suggest an interesting ligature design).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The equal sign\u00a0was first used by\u00a0Robert Recorde\u00a0in The Whetstone of Witte (1557)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n