½ Half Symbol - Copy and Paste
Half (½) is 1/2 written as the single Unicode character ½ (U+00BD), equal to 0.5 as a decimal.
Where ½ is used
The most common vulgar fraction by far: ½ cup in recipes, 1½ hours in schedules, and half-point spreads in sports betting. It ships in the Latin-1 character set, so it renders correctly almost everywhere, including very old systems.
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