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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 16
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: Division terminology
Posted by alexb on Oct-26-00 at 00:33 AM
In response to message #0
Well, I am sure you'd be surprised but the answer is "It's a division sign, silly."

In all honesty, I had no notion whether this ugly semi-straight angled sumbol had any name. I sure never used one. However, I just check a volume of Transitional Mathematics where this symbol along with "/" and "÷" is called as above - division sign.

All the best,
Alexander Bogomolny