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Is it some American thing that measuring things as fractions is easier than decimals? To me being used with metric system 1.6L is equally intuitive as 1 2/3, maybe even more intuitive.

It's just hardwired in the brain how much 0.6, or 60%, represents, I think internally my brain finds the closest easy references like 10%, 25%, 33%, 50% or 75% and then interpolates or adds or removes chunks of 10%, the rest is rounding errors. I mean, i dont have to think consciously if 0.69 is more or less than 75% and i know exactly where both 66.66% and 75% is and can place it somewhere in between.




I agree that fractions are a very American thing. A lot of stuff is expressed as fractions here. But I bet a lot of people couldn't tell you whether 5/16 is more then 1/3 or not.




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