What's the origin of this symbol? "=/="

[AmberClad]

I gather that "=/=" means the same as "!=". But where does it come from?

 

[OdiN]

wtf you talkin about?

 

[TecHNooB]

Draw an equal sign and put a slash through it. There's your origin.

 

[AmberClad]

Example of it being used on the last page of this thread

Hard to increase debt when no one will loan you more money.

Sales =/= profit

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Draw an equal sign and put a slash through it. There's your origin.

Oh. That's...kind of disappointing . I was kinda hoping it was from some obscure programming language I hadn't heard of.

 

[OdiN]

You mean this:

?

Not =/=, which...is not a symbol I've seen anywhere.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Draw an equal sign and put a slash through it. There's your origin.

Oh. That's...kind of disappointing . I was kinda hoping it was from some obscure programming language I hadn't heard of.

The origin is from 5th grade.

 

[herm0016]

nope just "does not equal"

 

[djheater]

Isn't that the standard usage of hypothesis testing? So statistics? Seems like I've seen it used in stats classes....

Beats me... it's self-explanatory though, maybe that's the origin, it's just logical....

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: OdiN
You mean this:

?

Not =/=, which...is not a symbol I've seen anywhere.

People can't be bothered to type non-ASCII characters .

 

[ZeroTM]

In math it can be used as A ? B, which basically means A is not equal to B. That's the only way I've seen it used as.

 

[AmberClad]

Yes, well, when it's written like "=/=" and you're someone that's used to looking at programming language operators, things that should be obvious to any idiot become not so obvious. That's my excuse and I stick by it .

 

[IronWing]

The symbol appears in the lower left corner of The Last Supper.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: OdiN
You mean this:

?

Not =/=, which...is not a symbol I've seen anywhere.

You knew full well what he meant. Get that Louisville Slugger sized stick out of your ass.

 

[IronWing]

Wow, "=/=" causes Google to return a blank page. Paging Dan Brown, paging Dan Brown.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Wow, "=/=" causes Google to return a blank page. Paging Dan Brown, paging Dan Brown.

Yeah that is really shocking...

Why don't you try searching "=" and "/" as well?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: jman19

Originally posted by: ironwing
Wow, "=/=" causes Google to return a blank page. Paging Dan Brown, paging Dan Brown.

Yeah that is really shocking...

Why don't you try searching "=" and "/" as well?

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: jman19

Originally posted by: ironwing
Wow, "=/=" causes Google to return a blank page. Paging Dan Brown, paging Dan Brown.

Yeah that is really shocking...

Why don't you try searching "=" and "/" as well?

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

I think someone haxed the internets.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: ironwing
The symbol appears in the lower left corner of The Last Supper.

teh lawl

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ironwing
The symbol appears in the lower left corner of The Last Supper.

:shocked: