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Same value, different packaging — math's way of saying no favorites.
means Having the same value, amount, status, or rights as something or someone else — no more, no less.
from From Latin aequalis ('uniform, alike'), from aequus ('level, even, fair'). That root aequus also gave English 'equity,' 'equanimity,' and 'equator' — the imaginary line that keeps the globe evenly divided. The math symbol '=' is much younger, invented in the 1550s by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who reasoned that no two things could be more alike than parallel lines of the same length — so he drew two.
- symbol origin
- invented 1557, two lines because nothing is more equal
- illusion alert
- a equals b often hides very unequal paths there
- social misuse
- equal treatment and equal outcome are not the same