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Expressing Fractions in MMDigest Articles
By Robbie Rhodes

Some errors popped into 030208 MMDigest as I was editing.  In the
article by Randolph Herr, the rescued concert grand Steinway Duo-Art
piano was summarily truncated by 6 inches!

I traced the problem to my DOS text editor: it doesn't display fraction
characters, thus "9 1/2 feet" displayed as "9 feet".  The text is now
corrected and the article at the permanent MMD Archives shows the
length of the concert grand Steinway Duo-Art as 9-1/2 feet.  My
apologies to Randolph.

Please, authors -- use the fraction bar ("forward slash") when writing
fractions, and connect the integer to the fraction with a hyphen, like
above.  Thanks.

Robbie Rhodes


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