“Who would draw a picture to divide 2/3 by 3/4?” asked Marina Ratner, a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, in a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

The ASCII character set contains single-character symbols for common fractions such as 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4. Microsoft Word 2010 has the ability to detect when you type one of these fractions and convert ...

When referring to mathematical solutions for financial reports, or recipes in Microsoft Word, fractions are the most common option. Now, you can easily type 1/2 and be satisfied with the larger ...