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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•5 months agoIt won’t keep you up if you just think of Divide as just multiplying by the fraction
minus-square@Sylvartaslink5•5 months agoYeah I was gonna comment that 0.25*(1/0.5) = 0.5 doesn’t look nearly as weird
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-25 months agoI didn’t specify fully, but I was just thinking 1/4 * 2/1
minus-square@Sylvartaslink2•5 months agoImo, as soon as you write it as 0.25 multiplied by a fraction it works, because you can then easily see that it’s the same as (1/4)*2
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•5 months agoThe math looks perfectly fine. But when people phrase “half of a quarter” I think they have (1/2)*(1/4) in mind, instead of 0.25/0.5
It won’t keep you up if you just think of Divide as just multiplying by the fraction
Yeah I was gonna comment that 0.25*(1/0.5) = 0.5 doesn’t look nearly as weird
I didn’t specify fully, but I was just thinking 1/4 * 2/1
Imo, as soon as you write it as 0.25 multiplied by a fraction it works, because you can then easily see that it’s the same as (1/4)*2
The math looks perfectly fine. But when people phrase “half of a quarter” I think they have (1/2)*(1/4) in mind, instead of 0.25/0.5