fractions
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As water, ice, and air move around the planet with the seasons, they redistribute enough weight to push the center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to Earth's geometric center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
A tutoring assessment revealed gaps in fractions and long division.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Major rivers including the Rhine, the Danube and the Loire have been reduced to fractions of their normal flows, leaving behind cracked earth and dead fish, while hammering economies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
You may have also noticed that the note lengths sound like fractions in arithmetic.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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