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by dnel 493 days ago
I'm sure there is a historical reason we have "half" and "quarter" and no others but it's not my area of expertise but still, not using them when they're appropriate just seems...odd.
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We do have others. You might be familiar with an octave, which is 1/8, or a decimal which is 1/10.