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  2. Fraction - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    3.1416 is "three point one four one six" 99.3 is "ninety-nine point three"; or "ninety-nine and three tenths" (U.S., occasionally). In English the decimal point was originally printed in the center of the line (0·002), but with the advent of the typewriter it was placed at the bottom of the line, so that a single key could be used as a full ...

  4. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").

  5. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    One fortieth, twenty-five thousandths, [zero] point zero two five 0.02 ⁠ 1 / 50 ⁠ One fiftieth, two hundredths, [zero] point zero two 0.016 666... ⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ One sixtieth 0.015625 ⁠ 1 / 64 ⁠ One sixty-fourth, ten thousand fifty six-hundred [and] twenty-five millionths, [zero] point zero one five six two five 0.012 345 679 012 345 ...

  6. 1/4 - Wikipedia

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    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)

  7. Greek numerals - Wikipedia

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    In medieval manuscripts of the Book of Revelation, the number of the Beast 666 is written as χξϛ (600 + 60 + 6). (Numbers larger than 1,000 reused the same letters but included various marks to note the change.) Fractions were indicated as the denominator followed by a keraia (ʹ); γʹ indicated one third, δʹ one fourth and so on. As an ...

  8. UnitedHealth tops profit forecasts but medical costs linger ...

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    In the recently concluded fourth quarter, more than 87% of the premiums UnitedHealth collected went back out the door to cover medical costs. ... which exclude one-time items, totaled $6.81 per ...

  9. Quartal and quintal harmony - Wikipedia

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    The composer then picks out this vertical quartal harmony in a horizontal sequence of fourths from the horns, eventually leading to a passage of triadic quartal harmony (i.e., chords of three notes, each layer a fourth apart). [citation needed] Schoenberg was also one of the first to write on the theoretical consequences of this harmonic ...