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[–] malle_yeno@pawb.social -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I don't like decimal notation lol

(1/4)/(1/2)=1/2 makes it way clearer what is going on.

[–] Woovie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am in the completely opposite camp of you, I cannot, for the life of me comprehend the equation in this form.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's not to understand? One divided by four divided by one divided by two equals one divided by two. Simple.

[–] Woovie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I understand the math, that isn’t the problem. It’s how it looks. I have a struggle parsing it.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Come on it's not even middle school maths.

(1/4) / (1/2) = (1/4) X (2/1) = (1/4) X 2 = 2/4 = 1/2 = 0.5

[–] Woovie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

it has nothing to do with the equation itself, but the way that it looks. I understand the basics of the mathematics, but looking at it in this form does not work for me.