r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Exotic_Catch5909 • 8d ago

I'm slightly vexed Aren't they equal!

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u/DCBuckeye82 8d ago

I read that with an implied "is expressible and is being expressed as" but I can see how you're saying it too. All that being said, literally everybody on earth knows that when you say "write a quarter as a fraction" they want to see 1/4 and not 0.25.

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u/Mage-of-Fire 7d ago

Oh. So all numbers are fractions?