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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)
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Rustom Mody wrote:
> ÷ for some reason seems inappropriate
> (some vague recollection that its an only English; Europeans dont use it??)

To me it's something you learn in primary school and
then grow out of when you start doing "real" mathematics.
The "/" is actually a better approximation of what
mathematicians use.

-- 
Greg