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This is a little off topic, but according to my old roomate (who is a math major and generally anal about this kind of stuff), .75 should not be pronounced “point seven five.” He is convinced that it should only be pronounced " seventy five thousandths. 3.24? Three and twenty four thousandths. Any other pronunciation is wrong.
Anyone else heard of this?
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Sounds to me like he hasn’t really got to grips with the decimal system, and wants to remain fractional.