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"And to avoid the tedious repetition of these words: is equal to: I will set as I do often in work use, a pair of parallels, or Gemowe lines of one length, thus: =, because no 2 things, can be more equal." -- Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte (1557)

public class Equality {
	public Equality() {
		Integer a1 = 100, a2 = 100;
		Integer b1 = 200, b2 = 200;
		if (a1 == a2) System.out.println("a1 == a2");
		if (b1 == b2) System.out.println("b1 == b2");
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {new Equality(); }
}

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