They use their own special symbols. Parkes author of Pause and Effect. Math symbols are short forms to represent the information and data we have.
The asterisk appeared occasionally in early medieval manuscripts according to MB.
Though it is fairly common in English to say the word equals it is also fine to use the singular is For example two plus three is five. Syms a b c x define symbolic math variables. Symbols are a concise way of giving lengthy instructions related to numbers and logic. 20 180 prime.