On 7/9/2012 11:51 PM, Joó Ádám wrote:
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.
Thanks,
A./
