EDIT history

The small publication »De Thiende« (English: The tenth), Leiden, Netherlands, 1585 by Simon Stevin (1548—1620), contributed a lot to the introduction of fractions based on the decimal system.

Source: Gerard Unger, Typography as Vehicle of Science, Leiden, NL, 2007
 
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VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
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VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
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FRACTION NUMERATOR ONE
01 CODE POINT VALUE: : : : : 00BC
02 NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : : VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
03 GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : : Number, Other
04 COMBINING CLASS : : : : : Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05 BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: : Other Neutrals
06 DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : : <fraction> 0031 2044 0034
07 DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : : -
08 DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : : -
09 NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : : -
10 MIRRORED: : : : : : : : : No
11 UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : : VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
12 ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD : -
 
13  UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
14 LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
15 TITLECASE MAPPING : : : : -
16 DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : : 188
17 UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : : 0xC2BC
18 UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x00BC
19 UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x000000BC
20 XHTML : : : : : : : : : : &#188
21 BLOCK : : : : : : : : : : Latin-1 Supplement
22 PLANE : : : : : : : : : : Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23 STROKE NUMBER : : : : : : -
24 RADICAL : : : : : : : : : -
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