Long division symbol name?

[sodapop]

Hi,

I am looking the name or a location to find the name of the long division symbol
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It is not called the long division symbol, long division bracket, or gozinto.

Thanks for your help,

Soda

 

[shg]

See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LongDivisionSymbol.html

 

[sodapop]

I showed my Prof. that and it did not fly. He says that there is an actual name for the symbol but hasn't divulged that information.

 

[sous2817]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gozinta

 

[JamesW]

The symbol separating the dividend from the divisor seems to have no established name, so can be simply referred to as the long division symbol (or sometimes the division bracket).

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LongDivision.html

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This symbol has no actual name, although it is used in math textbooks throughout the US, and possibly all over the world.

http://everything2.com/title/long+division+symbol

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A Vinculum is the name of the seperator (divider) between two numbers, used in divison (but not the long division symbol):

12
---   <- Vinculum
 2

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58321.html

There doesn't seem to be a name for the Long division symbol..

 

[sodapop]

Maybe I should call it the long division symbol formally known as Prince.

Thanks for your help. It seems we all have found the same info. There must be some secret math teacher website that has this information.

 

[Atroxell]

Well, I'm curious.

If your profesor comes up with a name, be sure to post it here so we can all stump people with the question.

My daughter is a teacher and that would be a great trivia question for her 5th graders...

 

[arkusM]

is it a Tablleau?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division#Notation_in_non-English-speaking_parts_of_the_world

 

[Atroxell]

Hmmm...Interesting wiki article. Explained to me why my German mother's long division looked so different from what I learned...and yet her specific style does not appear in the article. She does something that I can only describe as a cross between US and Europe.

But the article did answer my next question, which was to be what the name of the other division sign is--"obelus".

I think the use of the word "tableau" in the article refers to the general layout of the equation, and not directly to the division symbol.

 

[RoryA]

The only names I know of are: virgule/solidus, vinculum or obelus
As none of those are the long division symbol, I'll be intrigued as to what your teacher says. (If he says 'perquin', please ask for a reference!)