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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is just 1*2=2 with extra steps

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nobody tell Terrance Howard.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Terryology has got to be one of the most nonsensical and unhinged pointless maths theories I've ever read.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

At times I just thought he did not believe in anything beyond the integers, which would be insane enough. But it is so much worse.

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

4/2=2, upside down.

(1/4) / (1/2) = (1/4) * 2 = 2/4 = 1/2

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

4/2 = 2

What's your point?

[–] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago

If that keeps you up you don't deserve sleep

[–] Loki@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a pizza. The pizza is 1. You cut the pizza into three slices: two slices are 1/4 (0.25) of the size of the pizza, the other slice is 2/4 (0.5) of the size of the pizza. We'll ignore one of the 1/4 slices for this question, as we don't need it.

Compare the 0.25 slice and the 0.5 slice, this problem is essentially asking "how many times can I fit the 0.5 slice into the 0.25 slice?", the answer to this is obviously... 0, if you're thinking in integers. Okay, but how much of the 0.5 slice could you fit in...? Half (0.5) of it. So 0.5 fits 0.5 times into 0.25.

Half of the slice that's twice as big as the 0.25 slice fits into the 0.25 slice.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Are you going to eat that last slice?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Already did when I was 9.... Kind of moved on though

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Phwoar you must be really clever

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

That doesn't make any sense to me but the calculator says it's correct... Goddamit I'm going to be thinking about this all day now...

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Divide with a decimal to multiply. This is equivalent to multiplying 0.25 by 2.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's confusing because it's dividing by "one over two (a half)" instead of dividing by "two over one".

Dividing by 2 is the same a cutting something in half.

Dividing by a half is the same as the inverse of cutting something in half, which is doubling it

[–] penguin_knight@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

a quarter is half of a half.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 3 points 8 months ago

Maybe you’re interpreting it wrong. With addition and subtraction we can imagine objects increasing and decreasing in quantity.

However we cannot multiply or divide an object to make more or less of that object. Instead it’s more like creating territories on an object for microbials to fight over.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

0.25 / 0.50 = (0.25 * 4) / (0.50 * 4) = 1 / 2 = 0.50

[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

If this doesn't make sense to you, you're in desperate need to repeat elementary school

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

0.25/0.5

(1/4)/(1/2)

(1/4)*(2/1)

2/4

1/2

There ya go.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

💚 Half of a quarter is...half.

♥️ ...is half of what?

💚 is half of a quarter!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dividing something by 0.5 isn’t halving it, it’s doubling it.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well I'm with OP, this entire matter is troubling my mind.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

X ÷ (number bigger than 1) < X, obviously

X ÷ 1 = X, obviously

X ÷ (number smaller than 1) > X, somehow confusing?

How many halves go into a quarter? Half of one.

[–] mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

n^2 /n=n

Who would've thought?

#iam12andthisisdeep

x^2 / x = x ?? How alarming

[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As an Asian, I can't understand why this keeps you up at night. Didn't you learn this in like 2nd grade?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They didn't teach why. American mathematics have been a rote learning exercise in classrooms for generations past.

[–] Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Legge@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It doesnt though? Unless n=2.

Your equation simplifies to 1/2 = 1/n

[–] Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

corrected, meant 1/2 instead of 1/n