Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

From: Julian Bradfield <jcb+unicode_at_inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:38:51 +0100

On 2012-07-10, Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/2012 3:50 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> Asmus Freytag, Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:32:47 -0700:
>>> The European use (this is not limited to Scandinavia)
>> Thanks. It seems to me that that this tradition is not without a link
>> to the (also) European tradition of *not* using the DIVISION SIGN (รท)
>> for division.
>
> Is it _ever_ used for division? I'm curious, right now I can't recall
> ever having seen an example.

Depends whether you think Britain is in Europe;-)

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