What is the name for the ‘division’ sign in math terms?
I’m guessing here, but would virgule be the term you’re looking for?
Thank you
In case you were referring to the division sign with a horizontal dash between two centered dots, which I haven’t seen used since grade school, its LaTeX code is \div and its HTML code is ÷ but it doesn’t have a special name apart from “division sign”.
This Brief History of the Notation of Boole’s Algebra discusses the development of the modern infix notation for binary operations and relations on pages 2-4. Most of the symbols used are not given names.
The symbol or the operator?
IIRC mathematicians can be quite anal about this at times, eg. the ‘upside-down-capital-delta’, ‘nabla’ or ‘del’ symbol is used to represent ‘curl’ or ‘divergence’ operators depending on context.
FTR I’m a maths student and I’ve never seen ‘horizontal line with two dots’ called anything. ‘/’ is generally treated as another way of writing a fraction, and called ‘over’, as it x/(2+x) is ‘x over 2-plus-x’ and (x+2)/x is ‘x plus 2 all over x’.
It really depends why you want to know…