Greta75
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker It's not about her understanding of fractions, it is about the meaning of the word 'quarter'. She seems to be telling us that in Singaporean political jargon, it can specifically mean a period consisting of one of the first, second, third or fourth sets of 3 consecutive months in each year. So over a 4 year term, there would be 16 quarters. A quarter of the entire TERM would be one year. We don't agree on anything, but I am amazed that you are the only one who gets it. And it would have never occur to me at all that this is the First Quarter, because our terms of measurements for Quarters is always every 3 months, not just political Terms, but also, pretty much anything with a dateline. Now I wonder if I claim 30 degrees is 86 degrees, would Wayward also say I fail math if I equate 30 degrees to 86 degrees. Because for a damn long time, especially as a kid when I spoke to US kids online and they told me the temperature was 86 degrees, I thought they were suppose to be dead in that temperature. Only then I find out that, their 86 degrees is our 30 degrees. As our boiling point is 100 degrees. Yet in the US, it's some odd figure.
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