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Units are absolutely necessary, and 'fractions' don't make sense without them.
'1/3' without units is not a 'fraction' but instead is 0.3333, a number on the number line, which is why it looks so wrong to see 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6.
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Units are absolutely necessary, and 'fractions' don't make sense without them.
'1/3' without units is not a 'fraction' but instead is 0.3333, a number on the number line, which is why it looks so wrong to see 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/6.