Fractional

Fractional Dollar

There shall be no fractional votes.

There shall be no fractional votes.

The intricacies of scale that come out of that you know, in the example of the nose to the face, there's a fractional part to whole idea.

I even knew at a seven year old age that I could actually get a fractional percent of a cent, and people would pay that because it multiplied up.

Obviously, the domino effect need not stop there the insolvency of banks A and B could get a bank C and additional banks into trouble. Indeed, the entire over indebted fractional reserve banking subsystem might have to be liquidated.

But that is not the point. What is important is that we recognize the existence of gigantic parts of the earth s climate system such as West Antarctica s three quadrillion ton ice sheet that can be tipped when a fractional temperature rise occurs in key locations.

And the reason that that was the model of beauty and of nature was because the decimal point had not been invented yet it wasn't the 16th century and everybody had to dimension a building in terms of fractions, so a room would be dimensioned as one fourth of a facade the structural dais of that might be dimensioned as 10 units, and you would get down to the small elements by fractional subdivision finer and finer and finer.