# Double Slash close together

I am looking for a certain symbol. It looks like // but closer together and in mathematics refers to a GIT quotient. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Welcome to TeX.SX! :) –  clemens Aug 4 '13 at 19:29
The Wikipedia page to GIT uses /\!\!/, i.e. two slashes with kerning. –  Qrrbrbirlbel Aug 4 '13 at 19:33
Have a look at “How to look up a symbol?” for ideas how you can easily find a particular symbol. –  Henri Menke Aug 4 '13 at 20:44

The stmaryrd package offers you \sslash:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}

\begin{document}

${\displaystyle A\sslash B}\quad A\sslash B\quad L_{A\sslash B}\quad L_{M_{A\sslash B}}$

\end{document}


As egreg mentions, one can also define the symbols without extra packages:

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\sslash}{\mathbin{/\mkern-6mu/}}

\begin{document}

${\displaystyle A\sslash B}\quad A\sslash B\quad L_{A\sslash B}\quad L_{M_{A\sslash B}}$

\end{document}


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The same result, without extra packages, can be obtained by \newcommand{\sslash}{\mathbin{/\mkern-6mu/}} –  egreg Aug 4 '13 at 21:36
@egreg I've incorporated your suggestion to my answer. Thanks. –  Gonzalo Medina Aug 4 '13 at 21:51
Thanks, Gonzalo and @egreg! –  Tyler Kelly Aug 7 '13 at 0:20

Here is a slightly more versatile version called \git that adapts to the style you're in:

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\git}{\mathbin{
\mathchoice{/\mkern-6mu/}% \displaystyle
{/\mkern-6mu/}% \textstyle
{/\mkern-5mu/}% \scriptstyle
{/\mkern-5mu/}}}% \scriptscriptstyle
\begin{document}
${\displaystyle A\git B}\quad A\git B\quad L_{A\git B}\quad L_{M_{A\git B}}$
\end{document}

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