in mathematics. The symbol (=), two little parallel lines, was invented by Robert Recorde, who died 1558.
“As he said, nothing is more equal than parallel lines.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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