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From Donald E. Simanek:
To students, I'll usually say, "To write 12 = 1 is surely absurd.
From Herbert H Gottlieb:
I seem to recall that such statements are used in writing computer
programs in "BASIC"
From Karl Trappe:
Or n=n+1 to increment a variable (in Fortran?). Karl
From Ludwik Kowalski:
I agree with Karl: who wrote: "n=n+1 increments a variable"
(in Fortran, Basic and ...). This is another, totally different, use
of the same equality symbol.