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Yes it does not make sense English is a dumb language. See also: bicycle and bisection
English is devoid of logic in many places but bicycle and bisection seems to follow the same pattern of something two
Yes but bicycle means two wheels (multiplication) and to bisect something means to cut in two (division).
Yeah. Bicycle - two wheels. Bisection - two sections. Yes, you are cutting a something into parts, but it's identifying you have 2 of them after the cut. If you have 3 sections after the cutting, it's trisected.
Bisection is confusing because two cuts leaves three pieces. It should unisection. \s