Re: Abolish Fractions?

Virgil <Virgil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Dubuque <wgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In fact I suspect most readers will have a hard time thinking
of any real-word problem that requires integral fractions as
opposed to decimal fractions. How about it naysayers?

At race tracks in Great Britain, the betting odds are expressed
in ratio form, with whole number oddments.

But that doesn't *require* integral fractions since the odds
could just as easily be presentated as decimal real number
approximations without any loss for this particular application.
There is nothing inherently integral in this case.

--Bill Dubuque
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