fractions
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He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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
Earlier experiments could continue for only fractions of a second because longer operation would cause the combustion chambers to melt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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