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  2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    A unit fraction is a common fraction with a numerator of 1 (e.g., ⁠ 1 / 7 ⁠). Unit fractions can also be expressed using negative exponents, as in 21, which represents 1/2, and 22, which represents 1/(2 2) or 1/4. A dyadic fraction is a common fraction in which the denominator is a power of two, e.g. ⁠ 1 / 8 ⁠ = ⁠ 1 / 2 3 ⁠.

  3. One half - Wikipedia

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    u+00be ¾ vulgar fraction three quarters The "one-half" symbol has its own code point as a precomposed character in the Number Forms block of Unicode , rendering as ½ . The reduced size of this symbol may make it illegible to readers with relatively mild visual impairment ; consequently the decomposed forms 12 or ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ may be more ...

  4. Egyptian fraction - Wikipedia

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    An Egyptian fraction is a finite sum of distinct unit fractions, such as That is, each fraction in the expression has a numerator equal to 1 and a denominator that is a positive integer, and all the denominators differ from each other. The value of an expression of this type is a positive rational number ; for instance the Egyptian fraction ...

  5. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    For example, the fraction2 / 7 ⁠ has d = 7, and the smallest k that makes 10 k − 1 divisible by 7 is k = 6, because 999999 = 7 × 142857. The period of the fraction2 / 7 ⁠ is therefore 6.

  6. Unit fraction - Wikipedia

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    Slices of approximately 1/8 of a pizza. A unit fraction is a positive fraction with one as its numerator, 1/ n.It is the multiplicative inverse (reciprocal) of the denominator of the fraction, which must be a positive natural number.

  7. Rational number - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction ⁠ ⁠ of two integers, a numerator p and a non-zero denominator q. [ 1] For example, ⁠ ⁠ is a rational number, as is every integer (e.g., ). The set of all rational numbers, also referred to as " the rationals ", [ 2] the field of rationals[ 3 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table - Wikipedia

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    The Akhmim wooden tablet wrote fractions in the form 1/n in terms of sums of hekat rational numbers, 1/3, 1/7, 1/10, 1/11 and 1/13. In this document a two-part set of fractions was written in terms of Eye of Horus fractions which were fractions of the form ⁠ 1 / 2 k ⁠ and remainders expressed in terms of a unit called ro .