[USMA:34782] Re: Stock exchanges

[Stephen Humphreys]

Fair comment, although my second point (IMHO) still holds true - fractions 
can be used without invoking "the measurement debate"

From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: [USMA:34780] Re: Stock exchanges
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:33:28 -0400 (EDT)


--- 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