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Re: More on Vincent's comments on text

Yes.

Baker

P.S. There's less difference between British English and American English
     than some people might imagine (discounting uneducated use or
     non-standard dialects).

On 02/18/2013 04:54 PM, Kreinovich, Vladik wrote:

I checked with my colleagues who went to school in the US< it is usual in US middle school as well

*From:*stds-1788@xxxxxxxx [mailto:stds-1788@xxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *John Pryce



§8.8.9, Example (i): Replace "2½" by "2+½"? I don't know whether "2½"
is a common notation. However it may be ambiguous.


It's the usual British notation. E.g. Wikipedia:

Mixed numbers
A mixed numeral (often called a mixed number, also called a mixed fraction) is the sum of a non-zero integer and a proper fraction. This sum is implied without the use of any visible operator such as "+". For example, in referring to two entire cakes and three quarters of another cake, the whole and fractional parts of the number are written next to each other:



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