for notations used in mathematics, science and technology. In older textbooks, it is called an obelus, though that term is also used of other symbols.

In mathematics

The obelus, a historical grapheme consisting of a horizontal line with (or without) one or more dots, was first used as a symbol for division in 1659, in the algebra book Teutsche Algebra by Johann Rahn, although previous writers

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