On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: >> It doesn't bother me. IIRC in primary school before fractions were >> introduced, >> a colon was used to indicate division.
The way I learned it, a colon was for a ratio, and a horizontal line was for a fraction. Both of them effectively indicate division, but with a distinct difference. If you have four red objects and two blue ones, the ratio of red to blue is 4 : 2 or 2 : 1, but the fraction (proportion) that are red is 4 / 6 or 2 / 3. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
