Fractions

CommandoDude

Why can't everything just be in decimal! Why would you devise a system that needed to be converted into another when you could just use the other system that needed no such kind of mechanic in the first place?!

I swear. I will never learn fractions.

And I hate math.

STOP USING FRACTIONS WORLD!

ClockworkUniverse

Not everything can be written in decimal.

snowbull

Not everything can be written as a fraction either.

RedEyedAbyss

Because not all math is done in numbers? Explain to me how you plan on showing the division of multiple variables with decimals.

Ponicalica

Because 1/3 is better than 0.33333333333333333333333...

DYRE

Decimals are a horrendously inconvenient way of representing many numbers.

Plus, decimals are just fractions anyway.  ...sort of.

Also there's not really much of a need to convert from fraction to decimal.  Just keep everything as a fraction.

^ And that.

FrodoGoofballCoTV

^I would argue decimals and fractions are simply different ways of writing the same thing (for example 0.254 = 254/1000).

1/3 = 0.1 in base 3.

But decimals may make more sense for raw data from instruments, while fractions make more sense for formulas derived from pure math (area of a sphere = 4/3 pi r²)

Deboss

Fractions are cool.

CommandoDude

^^^^ You write a line over the first 3 to symbolize that.

Ponicalica

And what about when I don't have TeX available?

Noimporta

But what if you need to put it into the calculator?

snowbull

Write it as division?

Nyktos

A fraction is a division statement.

snowbull

Exactly! Or I totally misread Noimporta's statement. Either works.

Stormtroper

Clearly the solution is negative powers.

DYRE