obelus
÷
the “dividing sign”. often used to represent the mathematical operation of division. historically, it has also been used to represent subtraction in northern europe.
on windows computers, pressing alt+0247 on the number pad will produce an obelus. it is produced with option+/ on mac computers.
an obelus is used like this: 4÷2=2
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