beest and I are kind of lost by this notation. What does ".¯ " mean? it appears here to mean /9 -is that correct, and if so, why and how and all that stuff? srsly, we both have relatively high mathematical skills and have never seen this notation before. please 'splain, lucy!

(I wonderd if I was going nuts or senile, so I waited for beest's confirmation before I asked.... :lol:

My math skills are feeble at best, but I think that's as close to repeating decimal that one can get with this text entry interface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline scroll down to the math and science section

it's a notation that means repeat what follows the overbar. so, the decimal notation for 1/3 would be 0.33333333..forever. Since I don't have the easy chops to make the bar appear OVER the 3, I use the overbar (as a separate character) to precede the 3, but it means the same.

jinx you owe me a coke.

oh right, thanks.. Is there really no way to get the bar over the top? gotta admit I've never had to try.......

Yes, in other more sophisticated editors, sure. In this editor, I didn't find a way in the timeframe I was happy with and I found an acceptable substitute. Meh. If you do find it, please publish it.

I'm kind of surprised it's not avaialable in the special alt characters -after all, you can get every vowel with every possible accent and umlaut -this is numberist! After all, they only need to provide 10 characters.....

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html

I found lots of pages that discussed the unicode key sequences for it... then I found quick and dirty, done.

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Hell. Yeah!

:lol2: with double bonus points for being racially inclusive.

Great idea. I hope it latches on.

It's great the we at the cellar keep abreast of these trends.

And I did it by copy-and-pasting your overbar.

I tried cutting and pasting a real overbarred number from a wikipedia page (i even opened an editing page to change it from a 9 to a 6), but the bar got eaten when moving to the advanced editor, so I went with yours.

Oh, it will. lulz!

I didn't want to click on the link. Do they only come in baby sizes?