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English: Robert Recorde's explanation of the first usage of the mathematical equals sign from which the current "=" symbol origins.
Čeština: Vysvětlení Roberta Recorde prvního použití matematického symbolu rovnosti, ze kterého vychází dnešní znak "=".
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Source http://blog.plover.com/math/recorde.html - The image is an excerpt from the Recorde's book The Whetstone of Witte.
Author Robert Recorde

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Howbeit, for easie alteratiõ of equations. I will propounde a fewe exãples, bicause the extraction of their rootes, maie the more aptly bee wroughte. And to auoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes : is equalle to : I will sette as I doe often in woorke vse, a paire of paralleles, or Gemowe lines of one lengthe, thus: =====, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle. And now marke these nombers.

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