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NancyLebovitz comments on Group Rationality Diary, July 1-15 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 July 2013 05:01:16AM 1 point [-]

I was expected to learn decimal equivalents for fractions up to 1/9 (including 2/9 etc.), and I use them now and then.

Instead of working on the higher multiplication tables, why not learn methods of approximation?

Comment author: Locaha 05 July 2013 06:21:57AM 0 points [-]

Funny that you mention fractions, I started learning them a week ago. Though I can't say I even encountered decimal 1/7 in real life...

Comment author: Kindly 05 July 2013 03:24:21PM 1 point [-]

If you read a comment on LW that's downvoted to -5 and says "14% positive" this means it's received 1 upvote out of 7 total.

If you remember all of the repeating digits (142857) then you can also identify 28%, 42%, 57%, 71%, and 85% as 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7, and 6/7, respectively.