The 1954 Statelessness Status Convention provided a definition of a stateless person (which has since become part of customary international law, according to the International Law Commission), and sets out a number of rights that stateless persons should enjoy.
The ratio of two integers P and Q can be expressed as P : Q or P/Q. In both cases, you may divided P and Q by their greatest common factor so as to express the ratio in its simplest form.
This is another use for fractions apart from numbers we need for measuring: Multiplication by a fraction signifies a part of the multiplicand. And so the symbolic statement, 4 = Â½ Ã 8, expresses the ratio of 4 to 8: 4 is one half of 8.. For the most general definition of multiplication, see Section 3.