I've always seen people use =/=, but the other day someone pointed out that it should be !=. From what I know, != is used in programming for the not equal sign but not sure if it's also used as the not equal sign on keyboard. What do you think, ATRL?

Colloquially it makes little difference. Both work, although =/= is more common.

In programming and technical fields, the != is used.

I use =/=.

≠ i.e. =/=

this is the not equal sign: ≠

I think =/= looks better, but that's assuming you're not using ≠ itself, and you're using it for something not on a technical level.

Both are correct. != is used in programming, =/= is used in place of ≠ because people don't wanna have to get the actual character and it looks the same.

EDIT: For what it's worth, if we we're going to use != because of programming, then logically we'd use == instead of = to denote two things being the same. Thus, there's really no point.

!= comes from programming.

=/= is more readable for the uninitiated.

only if you're a programmer .

This basically. Especially in Math.

No one is going to use != outside of programming or whatever

voted != to seem smarter

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Officially, it is ≠.

I know that, of course. I meant the correct sign to type on keyboard without having to copy-paste the symbol.

Never heard of !=

=/=

I usually do != tbh

≠

<> is also widely used in programming.

!= is in programming.
=/= is an easy way to do this ≠ which is the not equal sign.
So both are correct lol, but when you're generally typing you'd normally use the =/= cause it's not like programming. For the same reason we use = for equal and not == which is equal in programming.