Re:Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so
by tsimionescu on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:29PM
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You can't perform operations with apples, oranges and fruits unless you use them completely interchangeably ,i.e. 1 apple = 1 orange. Otherwise, you will break algebraic equalities.
You can convert apples to fruit and oranges to fruit and then do operations on fruit, but you can't go back from the result to apples and/or oranges. For example, 1/7 of (3 apples + 4 oranges) is 1 fruit, but we can't tell if it's one orange, or 1 apple, or 1/3 apple and 2/3 orange.
You can convert apples to fruit and oranges to fruit and then do operations on fruit, but you can't go back from the result to apples and/or oranges. For example, 1/7 of (3 apples + 4 oranges) is 1 fruit, but we can't tell if it's one orange, or 1 apple, or 1/3 apple and 2/3 orange.