Talk:Vinculum (symbol)
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Wow. Vinculums are everywhere! More places than was previously indicated in this article, and so I changed it.
[edit] Overline
Vinculum may be displayed using Template:Overline. E. g. AB or √2+x. — Monedula 1 July 2005 08:05 (UTC)
[edit] Fictional usage
In the Star Trek universe, a Vinculum is the computer core aboard a Borg ship which interlinks all the Borg aboard and passes tasks to appropriate drones. Each Vinculum functions as one node in the Borg collective network. It is likely the name is derived from the Latin word as well.
The term Vinculum was also used in the video game Killer7 to refer to a set of gates. These Vinculum Gates were used to link the present situation experienced by Garcian Smith/Emir Parkreiner to the memories of his past, which are represented as chapters thoughout the rest of the game.
I removed the preceding definitions, as they have nothing to do with the topic of this article. I don't think they're notable enough to deserve their own articles complete with disambiguation, so I'll let them die here. Melchoir 06:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Of course theyre not important enough to have their own articles, thats why they are minor sidenotes. In the name of Harman.....
[edit] Bracket precedence
From my high-school mathematics, I remember that the vinculum is used to 'bracket' parts of a mathematical expression. This is the order of precendence for evaluating a mathematical expression which had multiple types of 'brackets' (from memory):
- Vinculum
- Parentheses ()
- Brackets []
- Braces {}
That is, the vinculum binds more tightly than any of the other brackets, and braces are the least binding.
VedLuap 04:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
