@sil Actually a more charitable reading is that the book is from 1949 and would have been written without the aid of a calculator. He may just have been working beyond the accuracy of whatever tools he was using.
I'm still not sure how expressing something as a fraction over 123 would increase someone's understanding of the result.
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