• recall519@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Fractions are more accurate. You can’t display 1/3 as a decimal. Americans are dumb, but this isn’t an imperial versus metric thing.

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      1 month ago

      Your accuracy goes out of the window when you are actually measuring things though. The error is as significant as rounding 1/3 to 0.33

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          1 month ago

          I know that. But practically, if you are trying to measure 1/3 of an arbitrary distance, or 1/3 of an arbitrary weight, you are not going to be able to hit the exact, precise measurement using normal household or kitchen tools. Therefore your origin assertion that 1/3 as a fraction is more accurate than decimal is meaningless, as you can’t actually utilise that extra precision.