fractions

The leader of the 19th century California utopian community Kaweah put it into words: His people “divided into factions, and fractions of factions,” he wrote.

In 2018, it was hoped that the fractions relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which followed the bloody border war two decades earlier, were over.

Within weeks McDonald was spelling out whole sentences and doing fractions, despite having no formal education and being institutionalised since age three.

Those numbers amount to small fractions of the 18 million registered voters in Texas and the more than 8 million in Ohio.

When the greatest prizes are decided by mere fractions, perspective is everything.