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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!comlab.ox.ac.uk!mnewman
  2. From: mnewman@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Newman)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: After brackets
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.111837.2333@client40.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 11:18:37 GMT
  7. Sender: mnewman@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Newman)
  8. Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
  9. Lines: 7
  10. Originator: mnewman@client40.comlab
  11.  
  12. Was it on this news group that someone asked what comes after curly
  13. braces, and someone replied that you can use an overscore to denote
  14. priority ?
  15.  
  16. If so, then you might like to know that it's called vinculum (pl.
  17. vincula) from the Latin vincire "to bind". It's amazing what you
  18. pick up doing crosswords.
  19.