{"id":4742,"date":"2011-02-17T03:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T11:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:54:47","slug":"where-the-equal-sign-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/where-the-equal-sign-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Equal Sign Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/EqualSign1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4747 aligncenter\" title=\"EqualSign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/EqualSign1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/EqualSign1.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/EqualSign1-340x175.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Math Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-mathematical-volume-of-a-pizza-is-pizza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Math Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The equal sign (\u201c=\u201d) was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing \u201cis equal to\u201d in his equations. He chose the two lines because \u201cno two things can be more equal\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Math Facts Text Version The equal sign (\u201c=\u201d) was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing \u201cis equal to\u201d in his equations. He chose the two lines because \u201cno two things can be more equal\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1280,1279],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-equal-sign-origins","tag-etymology-equal-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}