{"id":99,"date":"2011-06-14T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:29:55","slug":"more-basic-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"More Basic Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e6\u2022\u00b0 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020 – fraction
\n\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e6\u00af\u008d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00bc – denominator
\n\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e5\u00ad\u0090 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2014 – numerator (also molecule, in a different context)<\/p>\n

In Japanese, fractions are read in the opposite convention from English. For instance:<\/p>\n

2\/4 is two fourths
\n2\/4 \u00e3\u0081\u00af4\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u00ae2<\/p>\n

\u00e6\u00af\u201d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b2 – ratio
\n\u00e4\u00ba\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u2022\u00b0\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u00af\u201d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b5\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00b2 – ratio of two numbers<\/p>\n

\u00e7\u00b4\u201e\u00e5\u02c6\u2020 – \u00e3\u201a\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c – reduction (of a fraction) to lowest terms<\/p>\n

\u00e5\u2026\u00ac\u00e7\u00b4\u201e\u00e6\u2022\u00b0 – \u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u201a\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020 – common divisor
\n\u00e6\u0153\u20ac\u00e5\u00a4\u00a7\u00e5\u2026\u00ac\u00e7\u00b4\u201e\u00e6\u2022\u00b0 – \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a0\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u201a\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020 – greatest common divisor (G.C.D)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e6\u2022\u00b0 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020 – fraction \u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e6\u00af\u008d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00bc – denominator \u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e5\u00ad\u0090 – \u00e3\u0081\u00b6\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u2014 – numerator (also molecule, in a different context) In Japanese, fractions are read in the opposite convention from English. For instance: 2\/4 is two fourths 2\/4 \u00e3\u0081\u00af4\u00e5\u02c6\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u00ae2 \u00e6\u00af\u201d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b2 – ratio \u00e4\u00ba\u0152\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u2022\u00b0\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u00af\u201d – \u00e3\u0081\u00b5\u00e3\u0081\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u2122\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00b2 – ratio of two numbers \u00e7\u00b4\u201e\u00e5\u02c6\u2020 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technicaljapanese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}