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Think about it (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Why is it not 0.125?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

same as x * .5 = .25 if that somehow helps ya

I suspect people might be getting confused by this because of colloquialisms like "divided in half", "divided in the middle", "divided by two"

things is, math doesn't care about idioms

another area in mathematics that I've seen ppl (myself included lmao) suffer from this is propositional logic. like with the non exclusive nature of the OR operator

but this is all just a wild guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I definitely struggle with any math that I can't visualize in a physical way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sometimes it clicks if you graph it out with the confusing values on axes.

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