On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:26:47 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Antoon Pardon > >> It doesn't bother me. IIRC in primary school before fractions were > >> introduced, > >> a colon was used to indicate division.
> The way I learned it, a colon was for a ratio, and a horizontal line > was for a fraction. Both of them effectively indicate division, but > with a distinct difference. If you have four red objects and two blue > ones, the ratio of red to blue is 4 : 2 or 2 : 1, but the fraction > (proportion) that are red is 4 / 6 or 2 / 3. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m07/0053.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
