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Originally Posted by iansales  Close. It's a stroke or slash, /. See here. We used to say "stroke" here in the UK, but the advent of the personal computer, and then the WWW, has seen "slash" become more common. |
So a virgule is a solidus.
I only mention this becase a couple of decades ago, the name solidus was used in a document I read that described the MML (Man Machine Language, which should confirm just how long ago this was) to be used on telecommunications equipment. There was also the "reverse solidus", now known as the back-slash. (At least the number of syllables is going down: solidus - virgule - stroke/slash.
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