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Common Fraction (Noun)

The quotient of two integers.

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

The number π cannot be expressed as a finite decimal or a common fraction.
To reduce a fraction, you divide the numerator and denominator by the greatest common fraction that divides them without a remainder.
He also described what we would now describe as common fractions in terms of numerators and denominators.
If we wanted to know how to make change, for example, it might be nice to write this quantity as a sum of smaller, common fractions of dollars and coins.
Some functions such as ln can never be represented exactly by any common fraction or even an approximate value by an n-gon or sum of powers of integers.