an apt conformity between the symbol and what it represents
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Sometimes, as Recorde himself noted about his equals sign,there's an apt conformity between the symbol and what it represents.Another example of that is the plus sign for addition,which originated from a condensing of the Latin word et meaning and.Sometimes, however, the choice of symbol is more arbitrary,such as when a mathematician named Christian Kramp introduced the exclamation mark for factorials just because he needed a shorthand for expressions like this.
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