Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:06:22 -0700

On 7/9/2012 11:51 PM, Joó Ádám wrote:
>> A very quick browse of Wikipedia showed me that the
>> colon as division sign is common in Ukraine, Russia, Sweden and Germany
>> too. (Thus, English Wikipedia fittingly acknowledges that 'In some
>> non-English-speaking cultures, "a divided by b" is written a : b.' [9])
> In Hungary it is the notation of inline division taught in elementary
> school, horizontal bar employed for built-up fractions. In upper
> classes and in everyday use solidus seems to be much more common.
>
>
Thanks,

A./
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