(February 9, 2017 at 12:40 pm)pool the great Wrote:Vic Wrote:If you divide your cake by no people, you are not dividing the cake.
You could say the same about addition though. When you add your cake by nothing, you are not adding the cake. Can you explain why it is right with addition but not with division?
Because it's possible to add 0 slices of cake, or take away 0 slices of cake. But it's not possible to hand out x slices to 0 people, because the slices are not being handed. In case of addition and subtraction, the result is the same as if you hadn't performed an operation, but the operation itself does make logical sense. It doesn't make much sense in real life examples I guess, but it does in maths. But it would probably take someone who actually does meth maths to confirm that what I said isn't nonsense ._.
But with division, it's simply impossible:
I have one cake which is 10 slices. I give a slice to 0 people. How many slices did each person get?
The question makes no sense. There are no people so they can't physically have any slices. The slices have not been given away. The cake has not been divided.
