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Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

At least where I am from we do get fractions in school.

Most people here will say “een derde” aka a 3rd, but it is mostly not used as a precise measurement or anything. Something like 3/7th is rarely used andd we would say 42,9%. In cases where the differences that create are relevant we would communicate it on paper or digitally where iirc we would still use percentages or decimals. Then again I am an accountant and not a technical analysist or anything. For me the difference between 42,9% and 42,85714 will mean a couple thousand at most.

Doesn’t imperial metrics also use frations from time to time? Metric doesn’t do that, but we have things like nanometers etc.

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