Neil Jackson

I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.

English Actor

Marie Curie

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Polish Scientist

Jeff Berwick

A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.

Canadian Businessman

Francis William Aston

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

British Scientist

Gabrielle Giffords

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

American Politician

Robert B. Laughlin

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

American Physicist

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?

English Dramatist

David Milch

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.

American Producer

Murray Rothbard

Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.

American Economist

Jacky Ickx

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Belgian Driver

Sometimes 'fractional' describes something insignificant, emphasizing its smallness in a non-literal, metaphorical way.

Metaphorical Use

'Fractional' can indicate a very small part of something without referring to an exact mathematical fraction.

Not Always Literal

Using 'fractional' often emphasizes how surprisingly small something is.

Emphasis on Smallness

In math, 'fractional' specifically refers to numbers that express parts of wholes using denominators.

Math Specificity

'Fractional' in math does not mean the same as 'decimal', though it can be expressed as such.

Not Always Decimals

Fractional can involve complex mathematics, like algebra, where variables have fractional coefficients.

Beyond Simple Fractions

In science, 'fractional' often denotes specific techniques used for separating substances into parts.

Technical Usage

'Fractional' in science implies a specialized knowledge or action, usually a precise method of separation.

Specialization Term

 actually negotiate with people this one person offered me three cents and I got him up to three and a half I even knew at a seven-year old age that I could actually get a fractional percent of a cent and people would pay that because it multiplied up at 7 years old I figured out I got three and a half cents for a thousand coat hangers I sold license plate protectors

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