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¼

The character ¼ is a character used to represent a quarter, i.e. the fourth part of a whole.

use

The sign ¼ stands for the fraction fraction 1 divided by 4, i.e. the decimal number 0.25. It is used primarily in texts; In mathematical formulas one usually writes with a horizontal fraction line. ${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{4}}}$

Correct spelling is, for example, “¼ to 5 o'clock”, but “the ¼ character, the ¼ note and the ¼ em distance” are coupled through . Grammatical diffraction is not affixiert : (read "about a" in about ¼ of the cases' em quarter of cases ").

The earliest evidence for the spelling of elementary stem and branch breaks (common fractions) with a slanted fraction line can be found in the small treatise De Thiende ( Eng . 'The Tenth') by Simon Stevin from 1585.

Character set

As HTML -3.2-compliant named characters of the ISO 8859-1 character set, the character combinations ¼ or ¼can be used for ¼ . In Unicode , the character is at the code point U+00BC (VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER, a fraction of a quarter ) and belongs to the Unicode block Latin-1, supplement .

Alternatively, the character can also be set with "  ⁄  " U+2044FRACTION SLASH ('fraction bar') as a combining character , with a '¹' (normal high -1 character, U+00B9'superscript one' from Unicode block Latin-1, supplement ) in front and behind a “₄” ( U+2084'subscript four' made up of superscripts and subscripts ) must appear. Instead of " ¹ ⁄  " you can use U+215FFRACTION NUMERATOR ONE from Mathematical alphanumeric symbols U+2150 ff.

See also

• ½ (character)
• Unicode block numerals - U + 2150 ff. With other fractional forms of this type (¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)

Web links

Wiktionary: Quarters  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• ¼ at decodeunicode.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerard Unger: Typography as Vehicle of Science . Leiden NL, 2007. Quoted from decodeunicode.org
2. ↑ A comparatively very complex aid with pure HTML text markup is implemented in the Wikipedia template: Bruch .
   The straight line notation is not available in the Unicode character set and can be set with TeX : \textstyle \frac{1}{4}or short \tfrac{1}{4}. Conversely, TeX allows the spelling with an inclined fraction only with great effort.