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A vinculum usually has little to do with division; it’s used in fractions and to group together numbers just as parentheses are.

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You might expect 10 ÷ 5 is the same as 10/5 is the same as 10 over a 5 with a vinculum between them, but each has its own eccentricities.

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But it gets really tricky when people assume that a slash replaces a vinculum.

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Where plus or minus signs occur in the numerator or denominator, brackets or a vinculum is used.—Tr.

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Again, Benedict XIV. in that Breve is speaking de duplici gradu consanguinitatis, not de secundo gradu, and states that a dispensation would be null, in the petition for which only one vinculum was expressed, whereas there existed two—duplex vinculum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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