Editing Equals sign (section)

===Approximately equal===
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Symbols used to denote items that are ''[[approximately equal]]'' include the following:<ref name = "The Unicode Consortium">{{cite web | title = Mathematical Operators | website = Unicode.org | url = https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf | access-date = 19 October 2013 | archive-date = 12 June 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612210306/http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
* <span style="font-size: 200%;line-height:50%;">≈</span> ({{unichar|2248|almost equal to}}, [[LaTeX]] ''\approx'')
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">≃</span> ({{unichar|2243|asymptotically equal to|nlink=Asymptotic analysis}}, LaTeX ''\simeq''), a combination of {{char|≈}} and {{char|{{=}}}}, also used to indicate [[Asymptotic analysis|asymptotic equality]]
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">≅</span> ({{unichar|2245|approximately equal to}}, LaTeX ''\cong''), another combination of ≈ and =, which is also sometimes used to indicate [[isomorphism]] or [[Congruence relation|congruence]]
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">{{not a typo|∼}}</span> ({{unichar|223C|tilde operator|nlink=Tilde#Mathematics}}, LaTeX ''\sim''), which is also sometimes used to indicate [[proportionality (mathematics)|proportionality]] or [[similarity (geometry)|similarity]], being related by an [[equivalence relation]], or to indicate that a [[random variable]] is distributed according to a specific [[probability distribution]] (see also [[tilde]]), or alternatively between two quantities to indicate they are of the same [[order of magnitude]].
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">∽</span> ({{unichar|223D|reversed tilde}}, LaTeX ''\backsim''), which is also used to indicate [[proportionality (mathematics)|proportionality]]
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">≐</span> ({{unichar|2250|approaches the limit}}, LaTeX ''\doteq''), which can also be used to represent the approach of a variable to a [[Limit (mathematics)|limit]]
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">≒</span> ({{unichar|2252|Approximately equal to or the image of}}, LaTeX ''\fallingdotseq''), commonly used in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.
* <span style="font-size: 150%;line-height:50%">≓</span> ({{unichar|2253|image of or approximately equal to}}, LaTeX ''\risingdotseq'')

In some areas of East Asia, such as Japan, "≒" is used to mean "the two terms are almost equal", but in other areas and specialized literature such as mathematics, "≃" is often used. In addition to its mathematical meaning, it is sometimes used in Japanese sentences with the intention of "almost the same".