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his Logistica using the symbol for equality. In 1571 Wilhelm Xylander published an edition of Diophantus' ''Arithmetica'' in which two parallel vertical lines were used for equality. This version was adopted by several prominent writers, including Giovanni Glorioso, Cardinal Michelangelo Ricci, and many French and Dutch mathematicians in the hundred years after, including

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