Sheep god of fertility). Other deities occasionally shown with ram features include the goddess Ishtar, the Phoenician god Baal-Hamon, and the Babylonian god Ea-Oannes. In Madagascar, sheep were not eaten as they were believed to be incarnations of the souls of ancestors. There are many ancient Greek references to sheep: that of Chrysomallos, the golden-fleeced ram, continuing to be told through into the modern era. Astrologically, Aries, the ram, is the first sign of the classical Greek zodiac, and the sheep is the eighth of the twelve animals associated with the 12-year cycle of in the Chinese zodiac, related to the
Plus-minus sign be rewritten as ""x" ± ("y" − "z")" to avoid confusion, but cases such as the trigonometric identity are most neatly written using the "∓" sign. The trigonometric equation above thus represents the two equations: but "not" because the signs are exclusively alternating. Another example is which represents two equations. The plus-minus sign resembles the Chinese characters and , whereas the minus-plus sign resembles . Plus-minus sign The plus-minus sign (±) is a mathematical symbol with multiple meanings. The sign is normally pronounced "plus or minus" or "plus-minus". A version of the sign, including also the French word "ou" ("or")