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- noun arithmetic A
fraction in the form of oneinteger divided by another,non-zero , integer.
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milosrdenstvi commented on the word vulgar fraction
GUISEPPE: It's quite simple. Observe. Two husbands have managed to acquire three wives. Three wives--two husbands. (Reckoning up.) That's two-thirds of a husband to each wife.
TESSA: O Mount Vesuvius, here we are in arithmetic! My good sir, one can't marry a vulgar fraction!
GIUSEPPE: You've no right to call me a vulgar fraction!
-- W.S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers
August 21, 2008
super-logos commented on the word vulgar fraction
Delightfully insane!
August 21, 2008