• cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    Is it fair to suggest or infer that in order for division to be possible, the divisor must be partitive of the dividend? Like 6 can never be partitive of 14 in the whole number sense such that axiomatically 14/6 = undefined in some vague sense that I can be damned to elaborate or defend currently?

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      9 months ago

      I can’t parse this paragraph.

      14/6 has a solution, its 2.3333……

      Multiply 14/6 by 6 and you get 14 again. You can always go back to the initial state when you know what actions are taken, unless you’ve multiplied by 0.