A dot above a letter is known as a 'diacritic dot'. The common name for the diacritic dot above an i or a j is a 'tittle'.
that dot means reccurent, its usually above a decimal number, & means that digit continues on forever. E.g. put 1/3 as a decimal. this wouldn't be 0.3 it would be 0.3 (with the dot above the 3) so for the example above the answer is 0.333333333333333333333333333(continues on forever) By the way, the number can have a dot on more than one of its digits
put a dot above the repeated number which is after the decimal
The dot between the ones and the tenths is called the decimal point.
It can refer to degrees if it is above and slightly to the right. A dot, (not a circle) directly above a number would represent a repeating digit in the decimal representation of a number.
A dot above a letter is known as a 'diacritic dot'. The common name for the diacritic dot above an i or a j is a 'tittle'.
the dot above the j is call a jot, as in 'last jot and tidle'. there is nothing above a u
The dot above the lowercase "i" and "j" is known as a tittle.
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The dot over the i was added to help with legibility. The reason a j has a dot, it that at one time in history, it was actually an i, that was later converted into a separate letter.
A tittle.
A tittle is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic or the dot on a lowercase i or j. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle
I think it is called a tittle.
It is called a tittle The tittle first appeared in Latin manuscripts in the 11th century, to distinguish the letter i from strokes of nearby letters. Although originally a larger mark, it was reduced to a dot when Roman-style typefaces were introduced. tittle According to Oxford Dictionaries, the dot above the letters i and j are called superscript dots.
The name of the punctuation mark with a dot directly above a comma is called a "semicolon."
The double dot over the letter "u" is called an "umlaut" in the German language. The dot over the "i" and "j" is called the "tittle". The cross over the "t" is often just referred to as the cros