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Q: How are inline fractions written in modern Hebrew? Which way does the slash tilt?

The question Why does SpaceIL's Beresheet landing graphics show m\s instead of m/s? in Space Exploration refers to the display of velocities shown in the cropped screenshot below of a different video I found that showed it in larger size. This question post is specific to Hebrew and not English;...

this is obviously off-topic here, but it's possibly of interest and in need of an authoritative answer.

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Mithical

7:38 AM

So @msh210 convinced me to join the Mishna project here. I claimed, learned, and asked a question for T'murah perek א. I notice that on the overview, it's marked as "(7/35)", but there were no other perakim claimed. I'm a bit confused about what's up with that.

I'd mark off the six I learned, but I don't want to touch it until I can figure that out.

msh210

@Mithical I think that's (chapter count/mishna count) and isn't changed until the whole tractate is done. Thanks for doing T'mura 1!

I agree that the notation is somewhat opaque.

Mithical

Ah. I see.

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