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There's seven nice fraction because of how they were rounded.
But there's no explanation of why he rounds 1.682 to 5/3 but doesn't round 1.587 to the even closer 8/5.
It's because scales are a social construction, not a result of vague math.
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There's seven nice fraction because of how they were rounded.
But there's no explanation of why he rounds 1.682 to 5/3 but doesn't round 1.587 to the even closer 8/5.
It's because scales are a social construction, not a result of vague math.