Journal Chacham's Journal: Puzzle: What do you call..... 2
What do you call:
- Your outer skin? Answer
- Under you outer skin? Answer
- Thing at the back of your throat? Answer
- That symbol on the right of the zero on a phone pad (digital) that people call "hash" or "number sign"? Answer
- The line in between the numerator and a denominator of a fraction?Answer
I don't know the last one. And I'm having a hard time finding out, unless it's simply called "bar".
The last answer (Score:2)
According to the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables 16th edition
p657, it is a "horizontal rule" or a "sign of division".
Another posting in that thread says:
As a boy I was taught to call it a "vinculum". The Collins Dictionary
of Mathematics may explain why: it's a "horizontal line placed above
a group of terms in an expression as an alternative to brackets..."
This thread here [google.com] puts vinculum in doubt.
Re:The last answer (Score:2)
I think I'll go with "horizontal rule". Now to see what my sister says it is.