I'm reaching out to you math geniuses.

 

Berkley has a couple new topwater lures I have interests in, but they have those odd weights.

 

What's heavier? 2/3 oz or 3/5 oz?

 

I'm looking at a couple fishing lures and they have weird weights, that I'm not accustomed to.

 

Is there a way to convert these odd weight to what I understand, or close to? I know 1/4, 1/2, 1 oz, etc. How do I know what 2/3 oz is closer to?

 

Thank you for your help.

1/5 = 0.2

1/4 = 0.25

3/8 = 0.375

1/2 = 0.5

5/8 = 0.6 25

2/3 = 0.667

3/4 = 0.75

 

8 minutes ago, ghost said:

I'm reaching out to you math geniuses.

 

Berkley has a couple new topwater lures I have interests in, but they have those odd weights.

 

What's heavier? 2/3 oz or 3/5 oz?

 

I'm looking at a couple fishing lures and they have weird weights, that I'm not accustomed to.

 

Is there a way to convert these odd weight to what I understand, or close to? I know 1/4, 1/2, 1 oz, etc. How do I know what 2/3 oz is closer to?

 

Thank you for your help.

2/3 = .66

3/5 = .60

The answer has been given, but if you know the concept of what they did, then you will have the means to calculate this on your own in the future. 

 

Simply convert the two weights, which are usually given in the form of a fraction, into a it’s decimal equalvalent. 

 

It is not rocket science, lol. A fraction can be thought if as a division problem anyway. For example, the fraction 3/4 can also be thought as 3 divided by 4, which turns out to be 0.75. 

 

Once you convert both fractions into a decimal, the larger of the two will be the heavier lure. 

 

Voila. You’re done. Thought I’d teach you to fish as opposed to giving you fish, lol. 

Not sure what baits you're looking at but I've been fishing a few of their new topwaters and they've been great! 

Google ?

 

Check out the wakebull it’s 3/8 ounce and it’s a bad mama jama!

Convert it to numbers that you can compare. Find a number that the bottom number in both fractions will go into.

2/3, 3/5, find a number that 3 and 5 will divide into (get that number by x the 2 numbers 3 and 5). That number is 15.

3 into 15 = 5 x the top number 2 = 10.

5 into 15 = 3 x the top number 3 = 9.

2/3 = 10

3/5 = 9

Does this make sense or am I totally confused.

And you thought you'd never use math again after school, lol.

53 minutes ago, J Francho said:

And you thought you'd never use math again after school, lol.

 

?

 

Don't know why everyone wants to teach @ghost how to figure it out...just Google it!

 

You can even ask your phone & it'll answer

Roadwarror's flip phone doesn't have Siri? 

21 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Roadwarror's flip phone doesn't have Siri? 

 

What's a Siri? ?

37 minutes ago, Catt said:

 

 

 

You can even ask your phone & it'll answer

Don't think so. ?

You guys are funny and this is just fishing. 

@ghostSo far I only use one odd weight 5/32 but this one is pretty easy to figure out, 5/32 heavier that 1/8(4/32) but not quite 1/4(8/32).

You can compare to known weight like 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8 and 3/4.

your weight 2/3(x3 =6/9) is lighter than 3/4(6/8) but heavier than 5/8.

another 3/5 (x2=6/10) which tougher but for sure heavier than 1/2 may be closer to 5/8.

This is just scratch on the surface, wait until you venture to other side where they show lure weight in Grams and try to covert to oz. I've been shopping for Lure which shown gram for the past 6 months and still don't remember what 5 grams compare to. This case you have to use both google and calculator lol.

@BurrowsI definitely getting that one.

57 minutes ago, Catt said:

 

 

You can even ask your phone & it'll answer

Last time I asked my iPhone, Siri told me to speak better English ?.

14 hours ago, I/MBasser said:

2/3 = .66 

3/5 = .60

2/3 = .66 = 10/15

3/5 = .60 = 9/15

 

Minus any atoms that may have been lost from use.

Math wins wars

3 hours ago, Catt said:

Don't know why everyone wants to teach @ghost how to figure it out...just Google it!

 

You can even ask your phone & it'll answer

Or you can just write a quick lisp program to do it for you  ?

 

(map (fn [x] (println (format "%5s" x) "=" (format "%.2f" (float x)))) (range 1/16 1 1/16))

 1/16 = 0.06
   1/8 = 0.13
 3/16 = 0.19
   1/4 = 0.25
 5/16 = 0.31
   3/8 = 0.38
 7/16 = 0.44
   1/2 = 0.50
 9/16 = 0.56
   5/8 = 0.63

11/16 = 0.69
    3/4 = 0.75
13/16 = 0.81
    7/8 = 0.88
15/16 = 0.94
 

Just do the math.  Your program only evaluates 1/(2^4) increments.  What about fifth and third ounces?

21 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Just do the math.  Your program only evaluates 1/(2^4) increments.  What about fifth and third ounces?

Good point.... I hate it when the requirements are always changing ?

Scope Creep!

Addition, subtraction is 3rd grade math, multiplication and division 4 th grade and converting fractions to decimals is 4th or 5th grade math. Fractions have upper number called numerator and lower number caller denominator, remember? You use your division skills and divide the numerator (upper number) by the denominator (lower number or divider) to equal decimals. 

This is elementary math not high school level math.

Tom

L'Hôpital it!

11 minutes ago, J Francho said:

L'Hôpital it!

Skip high school math and go straight to calculus.

fractions to decimals can be done using a crayon and 3 X 5 card, no calculator needed.

Tom

19 hours ago, WRB said:

Addition, subtraction is 3rd grade math, multiplication and division 4 th grade and converting fractions to decimals is 4th or 5th grade math. Fractions have upper number called numerator and lower number caller denominator, remember? You use your division skills and divide the numerator (upper number) by the denominator (lower number or divider) to equal decimals. 

This is elementary math not high school level math.

Tom

The smart ones were fishing while the rest of us were going to math class.

Years ago, I had a developer actually ask me how to evaluate percentages, lol.  He knew how to do it if it was a ten question quiz.  He literally stepped through case score is 10, then 100...case score is 9, then 90, etc.  The problem was there were 11 questions.  LMAO.