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math is hard (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I was gonna comment that 0.25*(1/0.5) = 0.5 doesn't look nearly as weird

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I didn’t specify fully, but I was just thinking 1/4 * 2/1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Imo, as soon as you write it as 0.25 multiplied by a fraction it works, because you can then easily see that it's the same as (1/4)*2