this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 40 points 5 months ago

¼ / ½ = ¼ • 2 = 2/4 = ½

This is the reason why people should learn fractions

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 months ago

And 4/2 = 2, what’s your point?

[–] tmjaea@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] xor@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

½ • ½ = ¼ 🫤

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

(Or any other numbers)

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months 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."

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago
[–] waigl@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] patak@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months 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

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

0.25^0.5^=0.5

[–] bin_bash@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago
[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months 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.