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math is hard (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Your confusion comes from the fact that dividing a quarter in half is 0.25/2. That's not what's shown in the comic. Dividing by 0.5 is the same as multiplying by 2. It's just a quirk of syntax, the way we write math. If you spelled it out using English the comic would say "multiplying a quarter by two equals a half". The confusion just stems from someone's unfamiliarity with mathematical notation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival