• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Fractions?

    Fractions use a numerator and denominator (e.g., (3/4)). Decimals use a decimal point with place values based on powers of 10 (e.g., 0.75.)

    So to answer which cookbooks use fractions; it’s American ones.

    Take 1/4th cup this 2 cups that 2&7/8ths of a fl oz this and 1/2 quart of water.

    So yeah. American cookbooks use factions.

    “the conversion isn’t useful”

    There no conversion going on. You can say 200g of flour or 0.2kg of flour. Both equally understandable to anyone who grew up with the metric system. Hell my grandpa even uses hecto- and deca- in everyday conversations.