ASCII Character =
EqualsThe equals sign (British English, Unicode) or equal sign (American English), formerly known as the equality sign, is the mathematical symbol =, which is used to indicate equality in some well-defined sense. In an equation, it is placed between two expressions that have the same value, or for which one studies the conditions under which they have the same value. In Unicode and ASCII, it has the code point U+003D. It was invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde.
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ASCII Code for =
These are the code points for equals in various character setsUnicode for =
The character for equals is mapped in Unicode as U+003D| Unicode | U+003D | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 61 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u003d | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x3D | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00111101 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 00111101 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x003D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000003D | |
HTML Entities for =
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the equals in HTML| HTML Number | = | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | = | |
| HTML Entity | = | |
Related characters
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| * | Asterisk |
| + | Plus |
| / | Slash or divide |
| < | Less than (or open angled bracket) |
| > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) |
| × | Multiplication sign |
| ÷ | Division sign |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %3D | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =3D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u003D" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \003D | |
| JavaScript | "\u003D" | |
| Perl | \x{003D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u003D" | |
| Python 3 | \u003D | |
| Ruby | \u{003D} |