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Think about it (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

¼ / ½ = ¼ • 2 = 2/4 = ½

This is the reason why people should learn fractions

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

And 4/2 = 2, what’s your point?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

½ • ½ = ¼ 🫤

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Way better: 37% of 72 = 72% of 37

(Or any other numbers)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah that was always the dumbest "trick" to pop up every couple weeks on reddit to then also have the top quote be, "it only works with easy numbers though."

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah, dividing something by 0.5 is the same thing as multiplying it by 2…

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

0.25^0.5^=0.5

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks I'm not going to sleep for the next 34 months and I think I should meditate 2 hours a minute to find out how this works

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

that is the right result why don't sleep because of that? 🤔

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I figured out why this is the case but only after I checked it on a calculator.

It's me, I am the problem.

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