First, "Fifth" & "Third" are ordinal numbers in this context, not denominators. The slash in the logo is merely to distinguish it from "fifty-three". Second, since that looks like an (improper) fraction, some play on numbers came into use. And no one expected it to be subjected to meticulous scrutiny.
Charles Mills' comment on engineers' humor is starting to sound more sarcastic than I first thought ;-). sas On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:53 PM Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fifth is 1/5, Third is 1/3, > Fifth Third might be expressed as 1/5 1/3. > Maybe abbreviate to /5 /3 assuming the 1. > Improperly drop the first / to get the 5/3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
