Equals Sign
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 61 on the numeric keypad to insert equals sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+61
- HTML entity
- =
- Unicode
- U+003D
About this symbol
The equals sign was invented by the Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde in The Whetstone of Witte in 1557, to save writing “is equal to” again and again. He chose two parallel lines of the same length because, as he put it, no two things can be more equal.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- EQUALS SIGN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII mathematical operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ᐀ Canadian Syllabics Hyphen U+1400⹀ Double Hyphen U+2E40゠ Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen U+30A0꞊ Modifier Letter Short Equals Sign U+A78A﹦ Small Equals Sign U+FE66𐆐 Roman Sextans Sign U+10190🟰 Heavy Equals Sign U+1F7F0
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.