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  2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    A simple fraction (also known as a common fraction or vulgar fraction, where vulgar is Latin for "common") is a rational number written as a / b or , where a and b are both integers. [9] As with other fractions, the denominator ( b) cannot be zero. Examples include 1 2, − 8 5, −8 5, and 8 −5.

  3. Number Forms - Wikipedia

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    Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals. In addition to the characters in the Number Forms block, three fractions (¼, ½, and ¾) were inherited from ISO-8859-1 ...

  4. Irreducible fraction - Wikipedia

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    In the second step, they were divided by 3. The final result, 4 / 3, is an irreducible fraction because 4 and 3 have no common factors other than 1. The original fraction could have also been reduced in a single step by using the greatest common divisor of 90 and 120, which is 30. As 120 ÷ 30 = 4, and 90 ÷ 30 = 3, one gets

  5. Decimal - Wikipedia

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    Decimal. Place value of number in decimal system. The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary / ˈdiːnəri / [1] or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers ( decimal fractions) of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

  6. Egyptian fraction - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the primary pseudoperfect number 1806 is the product of the prime numbers 2, 3, 7, and 43, and gives rise to the Egyptian fraction 1 = 1 / 2 + 1 / 3 + 1 / 7 + 1 / 43 + 1 / 1806. Egyptian fractions are normally defined as requiring all denominators to be distinct, but this requirement can be relaxed to allow repeated denominators.

  7. Unit fraction - Wikipedia

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    2.4 Adjacency and Ford circles. 3 Applications. ... A unit fraction is a positive fraction with one as its numerator, 1/ n. It is the multiplicative inverse ...

  8. Algebraic fraction - Wikipedia

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    A rational fraction is an algebraic fraction whose numerator and denominator are both polynomials. Thus 3 x x 2 + 2 x − 3 {\displaystyle {\frac {3x}{x^{2}+2x-3}}} is a rational fraction, but not x + 2 x 23 , {\displaystyle {\frac {\sqrt {x+2}}{x^{2}-3}},} because the numerator contains a square root function.

  9. Fractional part - Wikipedia

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    The fractional part or decimal part [1] of a non‐negative real number is the excess beyond that number's integer part. The latter is defined as the largest integer not greater than x, called floor of x or . Then, the fractional part can be formulated as a difference : For a positive number written in a conventional positional numeral system ...