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@actuallyautistic Somehow got into an argument earlier about fractions with my parents, especially the fraction 15/16. I said that 7.5/8 is the same thing as 15/16, because they can be converted to each other by multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by 2.

My mom basically said, no, that's not right because it's not a "proper fraction" which doesn't make sense to me. The math checks out, and numerators can have decimal integers. Is there something I'm missing?

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The difference between learning rote computational processes vs. number theory.

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@Uair

Perhaps a computer language. But not human language.

While the "rules" of grammar are generally logical, they often aren't and are often inconsistent.

More importantly, they "rules of grammar" are not the summation of human language. We frequently ignore, break, or change the rules to facilitate communication. You can't really do that with math.

I think that math is a language, not the other way around

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