Say the fraction 7/32 out loud

[alicej]

If I wanted to say the fraction 7/32 out loud, using English words, what would I say?

Seven thirty-twoths? Surely not?

[cycleruk]

I would probably say "seven thirty-two's."
or just maybe "seven thirty-seconds."

[drossall]

...or just maybe "seven thirty-seconds."

That.

[gaz]

Three and a half sixteenths.

[peter99]

In engineering

seven thirty seconds

[alicej]

Hmm, I thought "second" implied number 32 in some sort of sequence, which it's not, it's 32 OF something. But "seven tenths" would sound ok... so I'm going with "thirty seconds" then, thanks everyone!

[peter99]

Your thinking in Metric, ie 7 of 10, seven tenths.

your question is deaing in thirty seconds or seconths if you like.

So out of 32 bits divide by 7 to get the metric - but it doesn't quite work that way.

So, 7 bits out of thirty two bits in imperial. Does that make sense?

[Nettled Shin]

Could you say 1/32 is a thirty-secondth, just as 1/4 is a fourth, 1/6 is a sixth, 1/7 is a seventh, and 1/100 is a hundredth?

There are a few allusions to a word twoth, so maybe you could have a thirty-twoth?

Google brings up some hits from people using 2th instead of 2nd.

There is stuff about the ordinal numbers at Wikipedia, which states that everything other than 1 & 2 take the ending "th", but since when has Wikipedia ever been right?

[alicej]

Talking language, not maths, for the time being. Language is supposed to be my strong point, maths really isn't - if I need to do more than add something up I generally just post the numbers to this forum and ask someone technical to do it for me

[thelawnet]

seven over thirty-two.

[peter99]

Yes, one thirty second is correct. It's one equal bit out of thirty two equal bits. Just like one quarter is one equal bit out of four equal bits.
However.....

One sixteenth is correct.
Two sixteenths isn't. Two sixteenths = one eighth (remember fractions at school and reducing them? 1/8th is half of 2/16ths so we never say that in engineering, we say 1/8th. Just as we don't say 2/4ths, we say1/2 or a half).

Get it?

So 16/32 = 1/2 (16/32 = 8/16 = 4/8 = 2/4 = 1/2)!

So 7/32 is correct. It roughly equals 4.5 in metric.

It means splitting a cake marked out into thirty two pieces into sections with seven equal sections in each segment. So four equal segments with seven in each equals twenty eight with four left over to make thirty two.
The four left over is roughly half of seven.

So FOUR segments of 7 (=28), four left over equalling nearly HALF of 7

Equals 7/32 or approx FOUR and a HALF.

Time for a [inappropriate word removed].

[peter99]

I'e times 7/32 by four and a half to get 32/32 or a whole. Few

[Tigerbiten]

So 7/32 is correct. It roughly equals 4.5 in metric.

Thats wrong.
7/32 = 0.21875.
1/7/32 = 32/7 = 4.5715.
So 4.5715 is the inverse.

[Alex L]

So 7/32 is correct. It roughly equals 4.5 in metric.

Thats wrong.
7/32 = 0.21875.
1/7/32 = 32/7 = 4.5715.
So 4.5715 is the inverse.

You're brain works far to well at midnight.

And I'd better get back to work and stop reading CTC

[snibgo]

Tigerbiten has the last digit wrong. It is 4.571428571428..., so only 4.5714 to 4 decimal places.

To the OP: yes, "seven thirty-seconds".