Who used the equal sign first? General Knowledge for Class 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and Competitive Examinations

Who used the equal sign first?

The first EQUAL sign denoted by = was used by Robert Record, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, in his algebra text The Whetstone of Witte, London, 1557. He explained that he had chosen this particular symbol because ‘floe 2 thynges can be moare equalle’ than two parallel straight lines.

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