2 Unicode offers the “division slash” glyph. Its interpretation, however, varies a lot across fonts: Some designers seem to consider it the division symbol for linear expressions (such as “1/2” or “ a / b ”), …

The ∤ symbol is available in Unicode as U+2224 Does Not Divide, and as \nmid from many packages, including: unicode-math, amssymb, stix, stix2, newtxmath and the less commonly-used mnsymbol, …

\div is a mathematical symbol, so it should be inside a math formula: $6\div 3=2$ should work. If you want to use it in text, do \usepackage{textcomp} and use \textdiv.

Oct 23, 2010 · I usually prefer “x does not divide y” (at least in text). Also, have a look at “How to look up a math symbol?” for ideas how you can easily find a particular symbol.

What is the correct way, both semantically and typographically, to typeset a ∣ b and a ∤ b (read “a divides b” and ”a does not divide b”)? I guess I could simply type | (vertical bar, U+007C) or \vert for one and …

According to texdoc symbols: \mvert and \mid are identical and produce a relation. \vert is a synonym for | and both produce the same symbol, but should be used in the context of an ordinal, and should be …

Jun 6, 2016 · I usually use \div to generate a divide-by symbol, but when using the physics package, \div gives a nabla followed by a dot ("period") instead.

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Jan 17, 2015 · So I want to make the four elementary arithmetic symbols in math-mode, but I don't like the way the divison-symbol looks. I want it to look like you rotated the subtraction-symbol 45 …

38 How can I fix the vertical spacing between the numerator and the division symbol when entering fractions. Eg. in the following code, the spacing between a and the division symbol is greater than …