If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
@chris_bloke I love that we know the name of the guy who invented the equals sign, and I love that everyone was like, “Yep, two short parallel lines pretty much nails it.”
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
Can't be any worse that those working in the BMW factory fitting indicators to the vehicles.
What a pointless and unrewarded task
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
@chris_bloke Here is his memorial in St Mary's in Tenby.
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If you're ever thinking "oh my work will never come to anything" spare a thought for Robert Recorde of Tenby in Wales.
He invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 (the year before he died) "to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to" - and was promptly ignored for 61 years before being picked up again in 1618.
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