Even though no one would have blamed Mrs. Dubose if she had wanted to leave this world in narcotic bliss, she decided to try to do what she felt was right, no matter how impossible it seemed or how painful it was. Hmm, sounds like a person whose name begins with A and ends with tticus.. 1  BACK. 2  NEXT.
A ratio is the proportional amount of one quantity relative to another quantity. It's like a fraction, or at least a fraction is one type of ratio.
A magnitude is a part of a magnitude, the less of the greater, when it measures the greater; A ratio is a sort of relation in respect of size between two magnitudes of the same kind. For Aristotle and Euclid, relations were conceived as whole numbers (Michell, 1993).