TITLE: What does ! above = mean
QUESTION [18 upvotes]: Can someone please explain what the symbol $\stackrel{!}{=}$, consisting of an exclamation mark (!) above an equals sign (=) means? Below is the example I'm trying to decipher:

The normalization factor is chosen such that in average, Dynamic Θ Time passes as fast as physical time. In practice it is determiend by the condition that the interval in Dynamic Θ Time corresponding to a 4-year reference period [$T_0$, $T_1$] should be of exactly the same length:
$T_1 - T_0 \stackrel{!}{=} \int_{T_0}^{T_1} a(t) dt$

REPLY [19 votes]: I propose that we adopt the usage of algebraic chess annotations, where the exclamation point ! indicates a particularly good move, which is also suprising or unexpected. 
In mathematics, $\stackrel{!}{=}$ should denote a useful, important, but unexpected equality.