Using non-ascii symbols

Alex Martelli aleax at mail.comcast.net
Tue Jan 31 00:35:51 EST 2006


Dave Hansen <iddw at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:27:40 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Dan Sommers
> <me at privacy.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:29:20 GMT,
> >Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ... I'm so used to "/" for division that "÷" now looks strange.
> 
> Indeed, I don't think I've used ÷ for division since about 7th grade,
> when I first started taking Algebra (over 30 years ago).

I used it in APL, and the last time was less than 20 years ago;-).


Alex



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