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Nonfiction: The first use of an equals sign, equivalent to 14x + 15 = 71 in modern notation. From The Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde of Wales (1557).

See Equation (nonfiction).

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By Robert Recorde - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Bookpages/Recorde4.jpeg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4338503

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