• drengbarazi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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