Re: Abolish Fractions?



In sci.math, amzoti
<amzoti@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:38:02 -0800 (PST)
<1feef522-ba56-41cd-9294-ebf4837e33f5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Thoughts?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/mathscience/2008-01-23-fractions_N.htm

~A

Might as well ban square roots and trig while we're at it;
we'll just be replacing

3/5 = 0.60000000000
sqrt(2) = 1.41421356237
sin(60) = 0.86602540378

everywhere, right?

</sarcasm>

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