If you want to say something should be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you mean 24×7 not 24/7, which is approximately half a week.
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Replying to @KevlinHenney
@kevlinhenney To be fair, I wasn’t taught “/” means division in math class. The symbol we used was “÷”

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov But you were taught fractions — recently reminded of this as my children are going through different stages of learning fractions.
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@kevlinhenney Yes, but never using a slash. First time I encountered that might well have been in my first computer program.
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@stilkov Apparently, the ÷ (obelus) symbol meant subtraction until 1659, except here in Norway, where it still means that! @KevlinHenney
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@robsmallshire @stilkov Cool! Didn't know that.
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