ASCII Character ≈
Almost equal toThe approximately equals sign, ≈, was introduced by British mathematician Alfred Greenhill.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ≈
These are the code points for almost equal to in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Code page 437 | 247 | F7 |
Unicode for ≈
The character for almost equal to is mapped in Unicode as U+2248| Unicode | U+2248 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 8776 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u2248 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x89 0x88 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10001001:10001000 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 11100010:10001001:10001000 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x2248 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002248 | |
HTML Entities for ≈
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the almost equal to in HTML| HTML Number | ≈ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ≈ | |
| HTML Entity | ≈ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %E2%89%88 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =E2=89=88 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2248" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \2248 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2248" | |
| Perl | \x{2248} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2248" | |
| Python 3 | \u2248 | |
| Ruby | \u{2248} |