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RE: Last post wins. - Chemoeum - 10-21-2014 04:58 AM
(10-21-2014 04:49 AM)TheGreatAnt Wrote:(10-21-2014 04:48 AM)Chemoeum Wrote:Fractions are so....incomplete.(10-21-2014 04:41 AM)TheGreatAnt Wrote: The only problem with fractions is they are annoying to put in a calculator. At least with decimals you can round.
Rounding is inaccurate. Join the fractions side.
PUN SO INTENDED!
Here's a compromise. Instead of:
1/2
0.5
we do:
0.5/1
Compromise.
Utterly useless, but it's a compromise.
RE: Last post wins. - Flarp55 - 10-21-2014 09:39 AM
(10-21-2014 04:49 AM)TheGreatAnt Wrote:(10-21-2014 04:48 AM)Chemoeum Wrote:Fractions are so....incomplete.(10-21-2014 04:41 AM)TheGreatAnt Wrote: The only problem with fractions is they are annoying to put in a calculator. At least with decimals you can round.
Rounding is inaccurate. Join the fractions side.
PUN SO INTENDED!
And what if they are >1?
RE: Last post wins. - baustin42 - 10-21-2014 10:08 AM
(10-21-2014 04:41 AM)TheGreatAnt Wrote: PUN SO INTENDED!
I see you.
Guys, decimals are fractions.
RE: Last post wins. - Flarp55 - 10-21-2014 10:38 AM
We are arguing over whether it's better to express a rational number, which, when simplified as a fraction, has a denominator which can be expressed in the form 2^m * 5^n, as a fraction or as a decimal.
RE: Last post wins. - LegacyofEight - 10-21-2014 10:51 AM
Legacy is confused.
RE: Last post wins. - Flarp55 - 10-21-2014 02:05 PM
In other words, the topic of discussion is not whether decimals themselves are better than fractions, whether numbers are better expressed as fractions or decimals.
RE: Last post wins. - TheGreatErenan - 10-22-2014 09:21 AM
Oh my goodness. You guys are still talking about that?
Expressing numbers as fractions is more appropriate in pure math, where you are actually dealing with precise numbers.
Expressing numbers with decimals is more appropriate when you are performing scientific experiments, where you literally can't know the precise numbers on account of measurement error and therefore have to approximate.
The end.
RE: Last post wins. - Flarp55 - 10-22-2014 09:29 AM
Pure math vs. science then!
I'm for pure math
RE: Last post wins. - baustin42 - 10-22-2014 10:15 AM
Pure math is a science.
This is my identity now. The italics guy.
RE: Last post wins. - Flarp55 - 10-22-2014 10:41 AM
Let me revise that. Pure math vs physical sciences.