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1/4>1/3 but 151>113 (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Are Europeans afraid of fractions or something? It's way quicker to mentally add 9/16 and 3/8 compared to 0.5625 and 0.3750...

Like I get that metric is better but "metric is when no fractions" make 0/1 sense.

Edit - tfw you get ratiod by "9+6 is hard" in a thread about people not understanding basic arithmetic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I’m a lifelong American and neither of these are easy, but the decimals are much more like real numbers to me.

I encounter decimal points in my day to day interactions with numbers. Not so with fractions.

I will start learning fractions when restaurants put them in their prices.

“That will be $4 and 3/4,” said no one ever, thank gob.