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To: CAluvdubya
The backslash is used to denote division not to make a fraction out of the problem.

THAT is what screws things up for us old-timers. Seriously, when you've used the "Vinculum" for so many years, you see the "/" as a horizontal line separating the numerator from the denominator. All the junk on the left divided by all the junk on the right. Heck, in the original expression, I think they used the division sign and I still saw it as a "/" which I read as a horizontal line. Old habits die hard.

I'll have to watch that one next time. Thankfully, I don't use the computer to do these things.

347 posted on 04/12/2011 5:38:28 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: meyer

Kindly divide my post by 2!


348 posted on 04/12/2011 5:39:08 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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