Are fractions outmoded? Retired engineer says measurement method half-baked

Noted: “To say decimals are easier is superficially convincing,” said Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “But they’re not so good if you’re talking about something like 1/3, which is 0.3333, repeating until infinity. All of a sudden, you’re in very deep mathematical waters that are not so easy to navigate.”