From June 1997 dealers had to quote prices in sixteenths of a dollar, instead of eighths.

ECONOMIST: Collusion in the stockmarket

Helped by fast technology, they pick off eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and even sixty-fourths of a point per share.

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And Toyota promises it is done letting the Tundra get called a "seven-eighths" truck by Ford-centric cowboys and construction workers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Bishop Welby said his time at Durham had helped him rediscover the "seven eighths" of the church that did not warrant much public attention.

BBC: Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham

Helped by fast, relatively inexpensive technology, they pick off eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and even sixty-fourths of a point per share, but on tremendous volume.

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He recalled a story about Yogi Berra, a baseball star and a bit of a comic, who was once asked if he wanted his pizza cut into quarters or eighths.

ECONOMIST: Merton Miller

In principle, last year's rule changes ought to mean that the avoidance of odd sixteenths is not as troubling as was the avoidance of odd eighths, because market makers can no longer deny investors access to the better prices that might be available on electronic trading systems.

ECONOMIST: Collusion in the stockmarket