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Old 05-26-2015, 10:32 AM
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Default Decimals and fractions and converting one to the other - no need to be afraid of them
If you truly hate doing the conversions, there are inexpensive calculators that will do the conversions for you.
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Old 05-26-2015, 10:42 AM
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Here is a free one...http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calcul...alculators.php
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Did not know about that one -

Was in a remedial math class - surprising how many people thought 5/16 was more than 2/3 because the numbers were bigger!
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I have quilted for over 25 years and the only strange fractional numbers I remember encountering are for HST. That is so easily resolved by just rounding up from 7/8 to a whole number.
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I'm not afraid of them, they just give me a headache! LOL!
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my husband would say he could sit right down beside them and go to sleep! actually he was very good with fractions.
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Old 05-27-2015, 03:34 AM
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If you truly hate doing the conversions, there are inexpensive calculators that will do the conversions for you.
I don't bother them, they don't bother me
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