vulgar fraction

noun

vulgar fraction

First recorded in 1665–75

Expressed as a vulgar fraction it is 2/3; but as a decimal fraction it is .6666 ad infinitum.

She perfectly scorned the best of his clan, and declared the ninth of any man, a perfectly vulgar fraction.

A vulgar fraction is reduced to a decimal by dividing the numerator (increased sufficiently with ciphers) by the denominator.

He wondered if 6/4 was a vulgar fraction, and if so, he thought it would be better to express it as a mixed number, 1½.

Change one hundred and two thousandths (.102) into a vulgar fraction of the same value.

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