At 07:33 -0700 04/12/2001, Tom Gewecke wrote:
>I believe there is also a (medical) s-overbar abbreviation for "without"
>(latin sin, no doubt) and an ss-overbar abbreviation for "one-half."
>Presumably these are only used in handwriting by specially trained people.
The first would be "sine" 'without'.
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