Identical To
Part of Math Symbols
On Windows, hold Alt and type 240 on the numeric keypad to insert identical to.
- Alt code
- Alt+240
- HTML entity
- ≡
- Unicode
- U+2261
About this symbol
≡ means identical to, true for every value, as in a formula that always holds. Carl Friedrich Gauss used it in 1801 for congruence in number theory, so 17 ≡ 2 (mod 5) says that 17 and 2 leave the same remainder when divided by 5.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- IDENTICAL TO
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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