> 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. Á
