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How fractions started?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Fractions start with pie. People discovered that if you have one pie, and you have more than one person who wishes to eat pie, it becomes necessary to divide the pie into fractions. Four people can each have a quarter of a pie, for example.

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