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It shore was! Why do you think I done spent all them years in them high-fallutin' Yankee colleges?

"I think we are all clear that they aren't conventional fractions, Ace! That was just a convenient way to describe them."

Please pardon my presumptuous pedantical pedagogy. No profanation was...

I'm not so sure. They may have valued them highly but did have to keep track of them. Doing so on paper would have required very detailed descriptions, especially for the barber who either had or had...

Such fractions are referred to as improper fractions, improper perhaps because they are not translated, as they can be, into mixed numbers such as 90/4=22 2/4 or 22 1/2.

Not all of these...