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A cake with one quarter (one fourth) removed. The remaining three fourths are shown by dotted lines and labeled by the fraction 1 / 4 A fraction (from Latin: fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain ...
The quarter (lit. "one-fourth") was used as the name of several distinct English units based on ¼ sizes of some base unit. The "quarter of London" mentioned by Magna Carta as the national standard measure for wine, ale, and grain [1] was ¼ ton or tun. It continued to be used, e.g. to regulate the prices of bread. [2]
A fraction of one fourth, one quarter, 25% or 0.25; 1/4 (single album), a single album by South Korean band Onewe; See also. Fourth (disambiguation)
If the tens digit is not equal to 1, then the following table could be used: ... one-quarter or one-fourth or 0.3 three-tenths one-third three-eighths or 0.4 ...
Quarter (Canadian coin), valued at one-fourth of a Canadian dollar; Quarter (United States coin), valued at one-fourth of a U.S. dollar Washington quarter, the current design of this coin; Quarter farthing, an archaic British monetary unit; Quarter dollar, 1 ⁄ 4 unit of currencies that are named dollar; Quarter guinea, a British coin
The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (or one-sixth of an imperial gallon), at about 0.7577 liters, which is very close to one US fifth (0.757 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger than the current standard wine ...
In the fourth quarter, UPS earnings rebounded 11% to $2.75 per share, beating estimates for $2.53. Revenue recovered 1.5%, year over year, to $25.3 billion, which was a slight miss.
The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .