Down With Fractions!

“Fractions have had their day, being useful for by-hand calculation,” DeTurck said as part of a 60-second lecture series. “But in this digital age, they’re as obsolete as Roman numerals are.”

Do you think this is a good idea?  No more fractions?  We better hope someone knows how to use them, so they can generate programs for the masses to get answers to many daily problems that require fractions.  There are “quarters” everywhere and “halves” too…  Doctors, nurses, chemists, biologists, physicists use fractions daily to convert one unit into another.  I am not sure how we could get by without teaching fractions to students at a young age in fact.  Thoughts?

Logarithm

If you are poking around online and you find a good resource for learning Logarithm’s, please post it as a comment.  Here is an example:

http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/fyp/mathrev/mr-log.html

Log or Ln sites would be great!