harry k wrote:

And just what IS the need to divide into fractions. Decimals work
just as well, better even as they are simpler.


Negotiation. Did you ever see the movie "Wheeler Dealers" with James Garner?

"I'll take a point five interest on your point three-seven-five over-ride on
those squiggly ones and a point oh-six-five bit of those blue things if you
throw in a point six-two-five on the reddish ones!"