Therefore
Part of Math Symbols
Therefore has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ∴
- Unicode
- U+2234
About this symbol
The therefore sign, three dots in a triangle, introduces a conclusion, as in “x = 2, ∴ x² = 4”. It first appeared in print in 1659, in Johann Rahn’s Teutsche Algebra, the same book that introduced the division sign ÷.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- THEREFORE
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Miscellaneous mathematical symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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