Approximately Equal

Type it

Ways to write the Approximately Equal symbol
UnicodeU+2248
LaTeX\approx
HTML entity≈
Character≈

Meaning

States that two values are close to each other but not necessarily exactly equal. Compare with Equals and Identical To.

How to read it

π ≈ 3.14

is read “pi is approximately equal to three point one four”.

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