When All Things Weren't Rowny

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Once upon a time, a student wrote

(4 + 1)  rowny  5

That student was in Poland and the time
would have been in the sixteenth century.

And then along came Robert Recorde.

Robert Recorde (1510-1558)

He was rotating the tires on his chariot
when he got the idea
to rotate a symbol.

The symbol looked like ll
and meant that two lines
were perpendicular.

And thus, by rotation,
the equal sign was born.

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Once upon a very recent time, an artist named  Nihalini
inspired me to finally create the Recorde page.

I first wanted to do so over a year ago.

Time is funny that way.

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