Re: Vulgar fractions

From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 08:05:08 EST


Peter Westlake <peter@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:

> >Am 2000-02-10 um 15:07 h (PST) hat Paul Keinanen geschrieben:
> >> These fractions might be usable in countries using "Imperial" units,
> >> but as far as I know, there are only a few countries still using
> >> "Imperial" units :-).

> Why are fractions only usable with Imperial units? Do ISO standards
> forbid metric units to be written as fractions? Also, not everything
> is a unit; fractions are very useful in mathematical formulae, and
> for numbers in general.

Yes - which is more accurate and easily understood
1/3 or 0.3333333333333333333333333333333r ?

Chris



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