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chevalier26 , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic Somehow got into an argument earlier about fractions with my parents, especially the fraction 15/16. I said that 7.5/8 is the same thing as 15/16, because they can be converted to each other by multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by 2.

My mom basically said, no, that's not right because it's not a "proper fraction" which doesn't make sense to me. The math checks out, and numerators can have decimal integers. Is there something I'm missing?

oliphaunt ,
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@chevalier26 @actuallyautistic A fun (to me) fact related to but really not to the rest of the topic: there exists an esoteric programming language in which every program is simply a list of fractions. It's called and was invented by John :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN

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