#fractions

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[misccreativity]

I enjoy a bad pun way too much 😂

[big-tiddy-goth-ghoulfriend]

a pet peeve of mine is when ratios are presented in "parts" - usually in recipes, especially cocktails - and they involve fractions. The point of ratios is to give a scalable recipe that allows you to make as much or as little as you want; it's not for exact measurements but *relative* ones. If it's written correctly, you don't even need to know what to measure with. Using the classic margarita ratio as an example:

1 part lime juice

1 part simple syrup

2 parts triple sec

3 parts tequila

With that recipe, you know how much of each thing to use relative to the other ingredients. What size are the parts? Doesn't matter. How much margarita do you want? Measure with a shotglass if you're making one drink, a full glass if you're making a pitcher for a party. Hell, measure with a 5-gallon bucket if you're trying to take a bath in it. As long as you use the same container to measure each part, you'll have a good margarita in ten ounces or a thousand. The adaptability is the point.

Which is exactly why this ratio (not for margaritas this time, but for soy sauce marinade) doesn't work:

1 part soy sauce

0.5 parts sugar

3 parts water

How do you do half a part? Half of what? Half is already a relative measurement, normally the benchmark is "a cup". I can't just eyeball half of a 5-gallon bucket and be sure that it's accurate.

Ratios are percentages so you can't put percentage measurements in them already. The smallest amount in your ratio needs to be one part. Scale the others accordingly.

It should be 2 parts soy sauce, 1 part sugar, 6 parts water.

Similarly, if your ratio is something weird like 1 part, 2 parts, 3.5 parts, well then you need to multiply to eliminate the fraction. That's now a 2/4/7 ratio my friend. Having your smallest component be "1 part" isn't as important as eliminating fractional parts.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The android keyboard allows you to type certain fractions, but 7 gets shafted like a redheaded stepchild.

½, ⅓, ¼, ⅕, ⅙, ⅛, but not 1/7. In fact, no denominator 7s at all!

⅔, ⅖, ¾, ⅗, ⅜, ⅘, and that's it!

The only fraction with a 7 in it is ⅞, but that's just rounding out the powers of 2 (⅛, ¼, ⅜, ½, ⅝, ¾, ⅞), the 7 isn't doing any heavy lifting.

Why is there no love for 7? I'm more likely to need to type 1/7 than I am any of the special characters

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Okay, the interrobang is actually pretty cool, ‽, but why would I ever need the perthousand symbol, ‰? Or the subsection symbol, §? Or Waluigi brackets, 『「?

[coolmika745]

Math Equation in "28 Puddings”

I think Mr. Guzman was kind of confused on how to simplify this fraction and he even second guesses himself.🤔

2 is the greatest common factor (GCF) of both 10 and 12 and if you divide them by it, the result would be 5/6.

[57isanumber]

I just realized...

THE DIVISION SYMBOL (➗️) LOOKS LIKE A FRACTION

• <---- the numerator

-- <---- the line separating the numerator and denominator

• <---- the denominator

The numbers are just replaced with dots!

[silly-little-gooses]

decimals > fractions

I don’t make the rules

[er-cryptid]

Fraction Rules

Patreon

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Pi

[sadghostgirl14]

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

SIMPLIFY YOUR FRACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!

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[sansandpapyrusinhaler]

do other autistics hate fractions too or is it personal.

i have this seething hate for fractions. hate. gross. disgusting. decimals are demure. fractions are unintelligible.

i don’t understand. is it autism, confusion, or all of the above.

[warbieavianfeathwright]

“This summer. Alvin’s gonna teach me to skateboard! Theo’s gonna teach me how to play Go Fish, and Simon’s gonna teach me how to do fractions or something. I’m not really interested in that last one. Why does a bird need to know fractions!?”

[supernovacat]

My mom is so autistic that she made small talk her special interest, and by extention information about all of the people that she has ever talked to it somehow at her beck and call.

My autistic brain tried to mimic her. Unfortunately, I also got a combined type adhd from my dad (we also share a chronic illness, which makes the hyperactive part not show. My brother does not have this, and so he actually got diagnosed) so the brainfog is real.

So instead of real social skills, I now know how weather works, and can give anyone a detailed forecast for the next week. (I correctly predicted the location and amount of tornados that would touch down during a small cluster thunderstorm, they were nowhere near us)

This led me to learn about the circumstances of airplane crashes since they are prime examples of weather anomalies such as, supercooled large droplets (SLD), wind sheer, microbursts, and thick fog. I'm fairly certain I've seen an explanation of every single midair collision there had been.

Why can I name every stardew valley character? Why do I have factors of two fractions memorized down to 1/64, (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and 1/64, and most of the combinations between them, I made geometric dragon art twice), how many types of silver and black lynel weapon types are in the depths, all of the shiny odds and what they mean statistically, can identify several constellations, and am constantly surprising my doctors with the fact I actually understand how my condition works and what my lab results mean.

Unfortunately, none of this is considered useful, apparently. I literally just want a friend to nerd out about stuff with, going to a gaming con, so hopefully I meet someone there

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