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Why is it not 0.125?
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
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A quarter of a half is a half
Edit: its a joke comment guys
People don’t understand sarcasm lol
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This is why I don't like decimal notation lol
(1/4)/(1/2)=1/2 makes it way clearer what is going on.
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