fraction
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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
For now, the most recent data show that levels of coronavirus in sewage are a fraction of last summer’s peak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The WeChat operator has also started testing an AI agent in its superapp, making the assistant tool available to a small fraction of its 1.44 billion users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Despite being only a fraction of a nanometer thick, the engineered interface performs two important jobs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Scanning the room, Otto saw only a fraction of the Clock Watchers that he’d first encountered at the library.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Earlier experiments could continue for only fractions of a second because longer operation would cause the combustion chambers to melt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
To be sure, weird things happen on ice and snow when athletes are ripping down mountains and carving around sharp turns—and glory is decided by fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
It was a sort of mathematical homunculus—an idea borrowed from Pythagoras and Plato—but dressed up with fractions and denominators into a modern-sounding law.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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