Fear of fractions.
People tend not to like fractions, to the extent that they do irrational things like converting easy fractions into really hard decimals. 1/7 isn't that hard to understand, and it's nice and exact if you're sharing a pizza with 6 buddies, but for some reason, people, especially math and science students, are thrilled to write 0.14 instead, even though that's actually a little less than 1/7.
Klasmaphobia comes from the Greek word "klasma," which means fraction.
People tend not to like fractions, to the extent that they do irrational things like converting easy fractions into really hard decimals. 1/7 isn't that hard to understand, and it's nice and exact if you're sharing a pizza with 6 buddies, but for some reason, people, especially math and science students, are thrilled to write 0.14 instead, even though that's actually a little less than 1/7.
Klasmaphobia comes from the Greek word "klasma," which means fraction.
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