I realised something recently: I rarely write fractions in my daily life. I might divvy up a pizza with friends, cut up pieces of round birthday cake, or refer to times as “quarter past five” instead of 17:15 in speech. But I somehow managed to avoid writing them after uni, until I started drafting posts about turntables, and I realised I needed a way to succinctly express the ubiquitous “33 and a third” speed.
One way is to construct one with:
-
A
<sup>element for the divisor -
A Unicode “fraction slash” (
⁄) as a more semantically correct forward slash for the fraction -
A
<sub>for the denominator -
A
<abbr>tag to explain the resulting mess for less visual readers
The result is something like the below:
1⁄3
Alternatively, today I learned you can express Vulgar Fractions in HTML using these codes:
½→ ½⅓→ ⅓⅔→ ⅔¼→ ¼¾→ ¾⅕→ ⅕⅖→ ⅖⅗→ ⅗⅘→ ⅘⅙→ ⅙⅚→ ⅚⅛→ ⅛⅜→ ⅜⅝→ ⅝⅞→ ⅞
I’ve also added to the clipboard page on our wiki.