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minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-220 hours agoAre 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.
minus-squaremodifier@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 hours agoI’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.
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.
xD
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.