On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Jordan</b> <<a href="mailto:david_jordan@unc.edu">david_jordan@unc.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I am no artist, just a software developer. Though I did work on file<br>synchronization at one time...<br><br>Synchronization involves getting two (or more) things in sync, i.e.<br>equal in value. So here's an idea.
</blockquote><div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">The center of the icon will be an equals sign, implying left and right<br>
</blockquote><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">"operands" are equal.<br></blockquote> </div>If you are pursuing that metaphor, you could alternately work with the mathematical congruence symbol instead of the equal sign. It is less common, so it would spark fewer immediate associations to erroneous apps like calculators and spreadsheets (since the equal sign is commonly used in those apps as the 'calculate the results' button, which is not the meaning you want to convey), but it still looks enough like the equal sign that it clearly relates to equivalence/equality.
<br><br>And, technically, congruence means two items are identical, while equality only means that they have the same measured value.<br clear="all"></div><br>Nate<br>-- <br>nathan.p.willis<br><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">
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