What's Bigger 8/12 or 17/20?

Is eight twelfths greater than seventeen twentieths? Use this calculator to quickly compare the size of two fractions.
Fraction 1
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Fraction 2
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812
is smaller than
1720
Fraction Decimal Value
812 ≈ 0.667
1720 0.85
How much less?
812
is about 21.6% smaller than
1720