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fraction

[frak-shuhn] / ˈfræk ʃən /




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I have seen genuinely funny and ingenious A.I.-produced shorts on my feeds, many of them likely helmed with a fraction of the compute and app deployment needed at Fairground.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

Especially if AI accomplishes even a fraction of what the optimists think.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

They’ve also considered the fact that with residency or citizenship they could retire or Portugal or their son could attend a university in Europe, where tuition amounts to a fraction of U.S. costs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Despite being only a fraction of a nanometer thick, the engineered interface performs two important jobs.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Our reporting shows how Wall Street is already pouncing on his comments in fractions of a second, swinging energy and industrial stocks before everyday investors can even refresh their feeds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Tokenization allows investors to own fractions of an asset, rather than the whole thing, and blockchain hosting — theoretically, at least — enables payment, settlement, change of ownership and custody on a digital ledger.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.

From Slate May 2, 2026

Titan's slightly elongated orbit can disturb inner moons when their orbital periods become simple fractions of Titan's.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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