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I did it like this: 7 1/4 - 3/4 = 7.25 - 0.75 = 6.5 = 6 and 1/2 I would have assumed that most people would do it this way when they see a fraction that ca
by sigseg1v 2y ago
I did it like this:
7 1/4 - 3/4
= 7.25 - 0.75
= 6.5
= 6 and 1/2
I would have assumed that most people would do it this way when they see a fraction that can be expressed as an easy floating point but maybe not!
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- 7thaccount 2y agoHaha. I posted roughly the same thing as well. I wonder if those of us in fields like engineering that are used to ugly decimal numbers have a tendency to this direction.
- alberth 2y agoMe too. And it’s not one of the two ways the article claims people do math.
- vcg3rd 2y agoI just subtracted 1 and added a 1/4, barely giving it any thought. The example given is too simple for comparing methods.