(February 8, 2017 at 12:18 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: No you have one cake(1) and you divide it amongst one person(1).
1/1=1
We have a winner.
If you had 1 cake and gave it to no one to eat, it would never get eaten. So you don't complete the division. Unlike when you divide it between say 4 people at which point it disappears when each has had a fourth.
I always preferred the example of "I have 20 bucks, if I have you line up and give it away $5 at a time, how many would get paid? Why don't you all get $5? Because it gets used up after the first four takers. Likewise if I hand it out $2 at a time, ten get paid and then it's gone, the division is complete. But if I hand out just $0 at a time, how many get paid before the $20 is used up?
