| NOUN | a division sign | division signs |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
22 Übersetzungen
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- The division sign (...) is a symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate mathematical division.
- Short division does not use the slash (/) or division sign (÷) symbols.
- Johann Rahn (Latinised form Rhonius) (10 March 1622 – 25 May 1676) was a Swiss mathematician who is credited with the first use of the division sign, ÷ (a repurposed obelus variant) and the therefore sign, ∴.
- Johann Rahn introduced the division sign (÷, an obelus variant repurposed) and the therefore sign in 1659.
- 17 March 1987 – Crystal Palace, chasing promotion in the Second Division, sign midfielder Alan Pardew for £7,000 from Conference side Yeovil Town.
- Initially the Dragon insignia, which was a Division Sign, had represented the Hong Kong Garrison and all British army soldiers serving in Hong Kong wore a Dragon cloth-badge on their uniform.
- Pell is sometimes credited with inventing the division sign, which has also been attributed to Swiss mathematician Johann Heinrich Rahn, one of his students.
- Originally worn at the top of both sleeves, the battle patch was retained on the left when the division sign began to be worn on the right.
- The Wessex Wyvern Division Sign was used by the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the two world wars: a mythical creature said to lurk in the West Country.
- A few vehicles, such as RASC companies carried both a Corps or Division sign and their company sign.
- World War 1 Division sign.
- On some keyboards – including the original IBM PC/AT (and later) German keyboards – the asterisk (*) key on the numeric keypad is instead labeled with the multiplication sign (×), and the divide-key is labeled with the division sign (÷) instead of slash (/).
- except that the partial quotients are stacked up on the top of each other above the long division sign, and that all numbers are spelled out in full.
- Rather than using the ambiguous division sign (÷), [...] division is usually represented with a vinculum, a horizontal line, as in [...].
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