Can somebody tell me what this sign means in maths.

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<p>Can somebody tell me what this sign means in maths. between brackets
[ )_ ] Notice that the subscore bar is above, stuck to the top of the parenthesis.</p>

<p>It's presented with numbers and seems to represent a number but I'm not sure.</p>

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<p>Like this: <a href=“http://www.wyzant.com/help/images/ld3.gif[/url]”>http://www.wyzant.com/help/images/ld3.gif&lt;/a&gt; ?</p>

<p>You’d read that 125 divided by 5.</p>

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<p>it can be divided (proportional) or it’s divided (x/y) ?</p>

<p>Thank you, I’ve never seen this notation in my country.</p>

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<p>It means, “125 divided by 5”, which is 25.</p>

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<p>125/5 is the equivalent in x/y notation.</p>

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<p>Sorry for being burdensome but does it represent a simple division (there can be decimals) or rather an euclid divison (remainings)?</p>

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<p>You can solve it either by carrying it out until the decimal either terminates or repeats, or you can present it with a remainder. The notation doesn’t inherently require either one. The context of the problem might make one a more reasonable choice than the other.</p>

<p>In my experience, the expected result would either be presented either as decimal or with a remainder, but not as a mixed number (with the remainder shown as the fraction remainder / divisor).</p>

<p>Ask all you like. Math notation is theoretically universal, but in practice, there’s weird stuff like this that’s not.</p>

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<p>You can solve it either by carrying it out until the decimal either terminates or repeats, or you can present it with a remainder. The notation doesn’t inherently require either one. The context of the problem might make one a more reasonable choice than the other.</p>

<p>In my experience, the expected result would either be presented either as decimal or with a remainder, but not as a mixed number (with the remainder shown as the fraction remainder / divisor).</p>

<p>Ask all you like. Math notation is theoretically universal, but in practice, there’s weird stuff like this that’s not.</p>