Vocabulary: Vinculum

Feb 25, 2020 | Hinsdale

Today's vocabulary word comes to us from MathWorld:

Vinculum: [ving-kyuh-luh] A horizontal line placed above multiple quantities to indicate that they form a unit. It is most commonly used to denote the following:

1. A radical (),

2. Repeating decimals (),

3. The line segment joining two points and ,

4. The complex conjugate , or

5 Negation of a logical expression, .

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Vocabulary: Vinculum

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