- Equal, is equal to, equals, are equal to - English Language Usage . . .
Equals is correct, as is is equal to There are some instances when one might use are, but that would be limited to when a quantity separates are from equal to, and would sound correct, but not necessarily be mathematically correct
- Equal versus Equals - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Equals is generally used unless using a verb "is" and the phrase "equal to" While reading 3 ft = 1 yd you would say "three feet equals a yard," or "three feet is equal to a yard"
- Is equal to or equals - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Are both is equal to and equals similar in meaning? Which is the more natural? For example, one plus one equals two or one plus one is equal to two
- Equals - a verb or not? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
But in the example in question, equals is not actually being used as a verb When used as a verb, equals is used in the following manner: X equals Y But here is a simplified version of the example sentence in question: They stood as equals In fact, if you look at the heading Recent Examples on the Web: Noun, you'll see the following example:
- Word that means First Among Equals
The only single words that I can think of that have ever been used to mean that have lost the meaning through the somewhat natural process where the "among equals" part becomes more or less of a joke: prince and its Latin root princeps In phrases, first citizen is commonly employed, and the plain Latin for first among equals, primus inter pares, has some history behind it
- verbs - Is equals to, as in one plus one equals to two . . .
This wrongly conflates 'Two plus two equals four' and 'Two plus two is equal to four' In symbols, 2 + 2 = 4 The equals sign is equivalent to 'equals' (no matter whether the LHS, the preceding, is a single number or twenty) or 'is equal to' (no matter whether the LHS, the preceding, is a single number or twenty) It can be read out either way (the shorter way is, as you might expect, more usual)
- What is the origin of != in the meaning not equal to?
As a programmer I have always assumed that using != as meaning not equal to when writing text (usually on the internet) came from programming languages Is this true or is the origin different?
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
The counting in twenties is a Celtic practice that influenced English for a time, and also French (quatre vingt dix = four twenties and ten = 90) Putting "years" in the middle is also part of the Celtic idiom In modern Welsh, "30 years" is "deng mlynedd ar hugain", literally "ten years on twenty" The image shows Google Translate
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