What are 1/32, 1/64, and 1/256 colloquially known as?

[kmiklas]

Title says it all, really. Thx.

 

[Overnight]

Colloquially? Umm, fractions of a dollar (point)?

 

[Xela]

A sixteenth (1/16) is a "teeny", so 1/32 must be a semi-teeny, 1/64 must be a demi-semi-teeny, 1/128 must be a hemi-demi-semi-teeny, and 1/256 must need an electron microscope for identification?

 

[Scataphagos]

hemi-demi-semi-teeny

Say that fast 5 times.

 

[southall]

Not sure but we can make it up:

If a sixteenth (1/16) is a "teeny" then a 1/32 has to be a 'weeny'

Now the term 'teeny weeny' reminds me of the old song so:

1/64th can be an itsy

1/128th can be a bitsy

 

[Overnight]

Say that fast 5 times.

Xela be pulling the Close Encounters of the Third Kind thing out of the bullpen there, with the semi-demi half quavers.

 

[comagnum]

The fractions are simply the minimal tick size - stocks used to be traded the same way before decimalization began in 2001.

1 point = $,1000
Ticks per point = 1 point/decimal tick size

 

[tiddlywinks]

In the olden days before decimalization and penny/subpenny quotations, 1/16 was a "steenth", like five and seven steenths by thirteen steenths.