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Help me settle a debate.  Yes, we can google it, but actually, there's conflicting information so I thought I would go to a higher authority - permies.  

What are the names for / and \?

Also, if you can say where in the world you are, that would be great, as I suspect there's some regional variation.

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New York USA

/ - Slash
\ - Backslash

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Yup, what Timothy said.

Of course these are human nicknames.

Their ASCII code determines how 'puters interpret them, and this matters a great deal.
 
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r ranson wrote:Help me settle a debate.  Yes, we can google it, but actually, there's conflicting information so I thought I would go to a higher authority - permies.  

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I LOVE that collectively we are a higher authority than Google. I always feel that way!

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BTW, I never ask ooglie anything. It just keeps skewing, shilling and trying to sell me crap I don't need. Just give me data! but ooh nooh. My 2c.
 
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I just write Google because it's shorter than duckduckgo.  

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Thanks for the help.

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Anyone old enough to remember DOS operating system.

Was that the one with all the back slashes?

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I speak MS-DOS (or used to). It's been a while, but I think the syntax was slash.

I'm pretty sure it's the https internet universe that is backslash-horny.
 
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r ranson wrote:I just write Google because it's shorter than duckduckgo.  


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r ranson wrote: What are the names for / and \?
Also, if you can say where in the world you are, that would be great, as I suspect there's some regional variation.



In some system coding languages:
\ - backslash  (usually activates commands defined after the mark)
/ - forward slash (usually authorizes commands preceding the mark.)

(I am sure there are other great insights, but as for location, I have tested systems for companies around the world.)

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R Dell got it right!

My sister who majored in computer science always called the `/` a forward slash.

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There was a time and a place where it was a slash and a whack. Much easier to distinguish between. Today its more common to use forwardslash and backslash... or if you are like me and never remember whether the  forward/backward is referring to the top or bottom of the slash... I call it "the slash with the top leaning to the left" :)

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Does it lean forwards into the rest of the sentence / or backwards away from the rest of the sentence \ .

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A half is one divided by two.

It is written as one 'over' two, which is very difficult to represent on an old fashioned typewriter (or even this modern laptop...)

So the slash would be used to represent the dividing line, thusly - 1/2

It's supposed to show that the one is over the two.

If you use a backslash, it would look like this 1\2, which sort of hints that it's the two over the one. Or it does to me, as I imagine the 2 sliding up the slopey line and the 1 sliding down it. Maybe my imagination is just a bit too weird...

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the (forward) slash is the one that I can find on the keyboard without looking (with the question mark, right pinky finger) and use in writing and fractions, as Burra mentions....
The backslash is the one that's hiding together with the pipe, somewhere on the left, and I only use it in web addresses or other odd situations!
 
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20 or so years ago, I remember the backslash was really easy to find on a keyboard because I used it all the time.  It was that new at symbol I could never find.

What was I doing back then that needed frequent backslashing?  Basic? Qbasic?  One of the "newer" languages like c++ or pacaso (or whatever that was called).  Or something else?

Now it's really bugging me that I can't remember.

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In Windows the backslash is used to differentiate folders. So whenever you were using DOS you would have used them a lot to open or save files.

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