Using non-ascii symbols

[Roel Schroeven]

Dave Hansen schreef:
> 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 have even never used it, except that it's printed on calculators. In 
school we used ":" and afterwards "/".

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on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven