You appear to keep not wanting to understand that in mathematics, ratios are not equivalent to (or interchangeable with) division but for purposes of expressing scales in modelling, they are. In the English-speaking world, unlike in some others, the : is not a division operator.
But what are we arguing over here anyway? It’s just another example of XKCD No. 386.
“if you have three times as many apples as pears, it’s a ratio of 3:1 apples-to-pears.”
What is the world’s oldest profession? Apple picker! What were you thinking, perv?
I thoght a colon is what makes you sh*t.
Depends which part of space. Doesn’t really matter, nobody can hear you scream. About scale measuring.
Or maybe just a machinist or transmission engineer. When discussing gear ratios the number of teeth on the gear is listed regardless of whether it can be reduced in calculations.
KL
When I cared about cars, we talked about the pinion gear to ring gear ratio (found in the differential) and expressed it thusly: 4.11:1.
I remember that one because the Mercury Cougar I blew up on the interstate had that ratio.
Common among vehicle owners because it gives a single number that can be used to compare outwardly similar items. Seeing as most people can’t even tell what 4.11:1 actually means or will do on their car compared to 3.73:1, giving them 37:9 vs. 41:11 would cause mental vapor lock…
KL
True.
Also if the writer wants to be specific about the precision of the value.
The number of valid decimals matter …
I’ll have to remember that expression!
Exactly the problem here…
Technically Horticulturists, Apple picker was next, though thief might be more relevant. Splitting hairs, not sure what that ratio is?
They should have been as they were under the weights and measure act 1855, that did change until 1985 as they tried to change to metric the best I can tell.
That like a “brain
fart”?
Not quite, the mental vapor lock is when the normal functioning stops, thinking is suspended or running in a little circle. The brain fart is when something actually comes out, even if it is unpleasant, a brain fart is when someone makes a silly mistake like confusing litres with gallons or filling petrol/gas in a diesel truck. The mental vapor lock is more like the driver standing in front of the pump trying to figure out what to do.
A few times in the past year or so my MVL has manifested with numbers (keeping relevance to the subject) e.g. unable to summon a PIN number I’d punched in a thousand times over 15 years. That was quite a shock, I did get it on the 3rd attempt but only by elimination. The other times have been repeatedly transposing numbers in my own phone number when verbally giving it out.
Being left-handed is probably the reason why I sometimes transpose/mirror-image memories, theory being some things have to travel across to the other brain hemisphere and get reversed along the way. For example if you imagine the Mona Lisa, I’d swear she’s got her left shoulder forward. Or maybe it’s just early Alzheimers 
I have had issues when the sum I’m paying in the grocery store checkout has too many digits in common with the pin, I read the sum on the display and it “contaminates” the difits in the pin.
Similar outcome - using Paywave so much I forgot my pin
Mal
