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Where did the 'Equals' Sign Come From?
A look at Welsh influences in the history of mathematics - Robert Recorde, the first mathematician to use the equals sign and the plus and minus signs in English (1577) and William Jones the first to use the pi symbol,Ο€, in 1707.
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