What do you call that little slash thingy?

[Furcifer]

Perhaps a stupid question, but what do you call that little slash you put under the 6 and 9 to distinguish them? I googled it but didn't find anything. Does it have a specific name?

[Wowbagger]

Perhaps it's just called an underline.

[Furcifer]

Perhaps it's just called an underline.

Maybe, I thought it might be an underscore but couldn't confirm that either.

[OnlyTellsTruths]

Maybe, I thought it might be an underscore but couldn't confirm that either.

Another vote here for 'underscore'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underscore

The underscore [ _ ] (also called understrike, low line, or low dash) is a character that originally appeared on the typewriter and was primarily used to underline words.

[Lamuella]

I refer to it as "fassbinder's delineation"

Just to be annoying.

[Furcifer]

I refer to it as "fassbinder's delineation"

Just to be annoying.

I was hoping that is was something interesting like this, a fassbinder, a zerfleck, a horizontal plane rose, a numerical gravitation direction indicator...something.

So far it looks like what it is on the keyboard, an underscore. Boring. :cool:

[Rrose Selavy]

Shatner's Bassoon?

[TragicMonkey]

I call it a "typestroke emphatical character limination enspacement".

[Spindrift]

the sexto-nona-differentiator

[GreyArea]

I call it a "typestroke emphatical character limination enspacement".
A "TECLE"? As in, "Have you tecled your six?" That sounds slightly obscene.

[Howie Felterbush]

Dungeon Master's Friend.

[TragicMonkey]

A "TECLE"? As in, "Have you tecled your six?" That sounds slightly obscene.

I never use pronounced initialitary metascript capitalizational phonemic concatenation abbreviatiationing. No gentleman would.

[Beerina]

Lazy virgule.

[RobRoy]

Heisenberg Uncertainty Plank.

[gnome]

A reverse macron.

[Monketey Ghost]

Dungeon Master's Friend.

Too esoteric.

*rolls two 20-sided die*

Ooh! Maximum damage!

[Psi Baba]

Dungeon Master's Friend.
Sometimes it's better without it, because then it becomes Dungeon Master's Option.

[Psi Baba]

I was hoping that is was something interesting like this, a fassbinder, a zerfleck, a horizontal plane rose, a numerical gravitation direction indicator...something.

So far it looks like what it is on the keyboard, an underscore. Boring. :cool:
How about a hexanonametrical differentiator.

[Denver]

Arithmetic supporter.

[Eddie Dane]

A neck knife

[phelix]

A reverse macron.

I'm voting with this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_macron_below

[JihadJane]

Vulva/penis.

[kedo1981]

the bottom

[gnome]

I'm voting with this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_macron_below

Combining macron below--yep, I think we have a winner.

[The Norseman]

It's an analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold.

[Furcifer]

A reverse macron.

I read that as "macaroon".

[Furcifer]

+ or - 3 internets for everyone that answered

[dropzone]

Apparently this is a definition of "slash" that years on the intertubes have allowed me to forget about. :eek:

[UltraTexan]

A "who-is-on-topper."

[jhunter1163]

Axl Rose.

Oh... different Slash.

[RobRoy]

Axl Rose.

Oh... different Slash.

Yes, that Slash rocks and/or rolls.

[A Laughing Baby]

It's clearly a diacritical mark. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritical_mark)

[Captain_Snort]

Shatner's Bassoon?

But that is the part of the brain that controls time perception.

[phelix]

Combining macron below--yep, I think we have a winner.

Yup, that's 4 votes for the macron now. Clearly the right answer.

[Furcifer]

Yup, that's 4 votes for the macron now. Clearly the right answer.

It sure seems to be the most popular, and it's a logical choice, but there's surprisingly little evidence to support the use of a macron in math. The only mention I can find of a macron in math is the overbar, the symbol most commonly used to identify repeating decimals.

I think it can properly be called a macron or a glyph, but doesn't have a specific name.

[Dumb All Over]

Thingy.

[cwalner]

It's an analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean parameterization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold.

I think you may be plagairizing that

[Dancing David]

\ 'whack'
/ 'slash'
- 'dash'
_ 'underscore'

Now apparently we had a student (friend of friend story) named La-a, pronounced
Ladasha

[Puppycow]

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

[cwalner]

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.

The only time that truly matters is if it is preceeded by a 1, which eliminates the need for the bar. I know I would be very upset if someone I thought was 19 turned out to be 16 instead.

[A Laughing Baby]

\ 'whack'
/ 'slash'
- 'dash'
_ 'underscore'

Now apparently we had a student (friend of friend story) named La-a, pronounced
Ladasha

No, you didn't. That's an urban legend as old as time, right up there with the "WE HAD TWO BLACK TWINS NAMED LEMONJELLO AND ORANGEJELLO!!!" urban legend, and it's equally rooted in cultural ignorance and racial assumptions.

ETA: I realize that I probably sound like I'm jumping down your throat over this. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad that the myth persists today, and think that it's more of a cultural frustration than anger at you.

[rjh01]

The only time that truly matters is if it is preceeded by a 1, which eliminates the need for the bar. I know I would be very upset if someone I thought was 19 turned out to be 16 instead.

Nit pic. Turn 19 upside down and you get 61. Disaster if it is the age of a woman.

[Terry]

I think you may be plagairizing that

Nah, it was "research".

[carlitos]

No, you didn't. That's an urban legend as old as time, right up there with the "WE HAD TWO BLACK TWINS NAMED LEMONJELLO AND ORANGEJELLO!!!" urban legend, and it's equally rooted in cultural ignorance and racial assumptions.

In my friend's cousin's high school class, there was a kid named Nosmo King. True story. :duck:

[One Skunk Todd]

Footboard.

[A Laughing Baby]

...the [insert minority here] woman decided she would name the child the most beautiful word she had heard in her time at the hospital, and so the girl's name was Diarrhea (or Gonorrhea, depending on who is telling the story). Would you believe that???? Crazy how idiotic [minority] is.

[John Albert]

Dunno about the specific mark, but numbers expressed in such a way are said to be notated in "BBN." (Billiard ball notation)