--- Stephen Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard "a quarter point" being used for both > shares and interest rates. > I'm not sure if that's a "vulgar" fraction or not - > to be honest I never get > an attraction thing with how beautiful numbers are. > > It might be worth pointing out that creating a > psuedo-hostility between > decimal notation and fractions and pretending it has > something to do with > metric and imperial is usually the last resort of > either side to win a > pointless argument.
The term "vulgar fraction" has nothing to do with how nice or beautiful a number is. The short answer is that it's a fraction written in the numerator/denominator format. For example, 3/4 would be a vulgar fraction, while .75 would be a decimal fraction. Stephen Gallagher
