They must also be able to change vulgar fractions into decimal fractions, and decimals into vulgar fractions, with examples like the following:英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
The expected crisis came, even now that he was savagely determined to go on at any cost, to write, let the result be what it would. His will prevailed. A day or two of anguish such as there is no describing to the inexperienced, and again he was dismissing slip after slip, a sigh of thankfulness at the completion of each one. It was a fraction of the whole, a fraction, a fraction.英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
"And now, what is the amount," said Pollnitz, gravely, "which you have placed in my hands for safe-keeping?"
"Thirty-two thalers, fourteen groschen, and five pennies," said John; "and then the fractions from the three louis d'ors makes a thaler and eight groschen."
"Pitiful miser! You dare to reckon fractions against your master, who, in his magnanimity, has just presented, you with gold! This is a meanness which merits exemplary punishment."英文原著 · 《Frederick the Great and His Family》
'I mean,' said Prince Eugen, 'that night in Ostend when I was ill. You thought I was in a delirium. Perhaps I was. But somehow I remember that with extraordinary distinctness. I remember raising my head for a fraction of an instant, and just in that fraction of an instant you kissed her. Oh, Uncle Aribert!'英文原著 · 《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
Coleman made the mistake of hesitating. For a fraction of a moment he had acted as if he were embarrassed, and was only going to nod and say: " How d'do ?"英文原著 · 《Active Service》
We cared not a fraction for this place or that. We stared at the sheet as children listen to their rattle; and read the names of towns or villages to forget them again at once. We had no romance in the matter; there was nobody so fancy-free. If you had taken the maps away while we were studying them most intently, it is a fair bet whether we might not have continued to study the table with the same delight.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
Are you good with fractions? -Fractions of what?美剧 · 《Shameless》
Yeah. And even if you do get convicted, you probably only serve a fraction of the time given, then you get off for good behavior, you get parole, maybe you never even have to go 'cause the jails are too crowded.美剧 · 《Billions》
No, the punchline is the night when I was about eight-years-old, and he came into my room, after one of these fractions momings.美剧 · 《Billions》