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Robert Recorde
A 16th-century Welsh physician and mathematician who authored several important books on math in English…
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Hello! My name is Robert Recorde. I lived a very, very long time ago in a beautiful place called Wales. When I was a boy, I loved playing with numbers. Numbers were like a fun puzzle to me. I wanted to make them easier for everyone to understand and use.
I grew up and wrote books to teach people about math. In those days, if you wanted to show that two things were the same, you had to write the words 'is equal to.' It took a long time to write all those words over and over. I thought there must be a better and quicker way to do it. So, I invented a special sign. It looked like two little straight lines, one on top of the other, like this: =. I chose this sign because I believed that no two things could be more equal than two straight lines of the same length.
I lived a full life and was so happy to share my love of math. Today, my special equals sign is used all over the world. You can see it in your schoolbooks, on calculators, and on computers when you do your numbers. I'm so glad my little idea still helps everyone with their math problems.
Robert Recorde
Hello! My name is Robert Recorde. I lived a very, very long time ago in a beautiful place called Wales. When I was a boy, I loved playing with numbers. Numbers were like a fun puzzle to me. I wanted to make them easier for everyone to understand and use.
I grew up and wrote books to teach people about math. In those days, if you wanted to show that two things were the same, you had to write the words 'is equal to.' It took a long time to write all those words over and over. I thought there must be a better and quicker way to do it. So, I invented a special sign. It looked like two little straight lines, one on top of the other, like this: =. I chose this sign because I believed that no two things could be more equal than two straight lines of the same length.
I lived a full life and was so happy to share my love of math. Today, my special equals sign is used all over the world. You can see it in your schoolbooks, on calculators, and on computers when you do your numbers. I'm so glad my little idea still helps everyone with their math problems.
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A 16th-century Welsh physician and mathematician who authored several important books on math in English, including "The Grounde of Artes" (1543) and "The Pathway to Knowledge" (1551), and invented the equals sign (=).
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