@futurebird Apropos of fractions, there's a brilliant scene in the Isao Takahata film _Omohide Poro Poro_ in which a young girl expresses frustration at the notion that dividing by 1/4 is a different notion than dividing by 4, and her sister comprehensively fails to illuminate matters.
There's a translation script for the whole film at nausicaa.net/miyazaki/opp/scri… , and the fraction bit has a footnote where the translator consulted with a mathematician to explain what's going on.
https://ohai.social/@dwildstr/113527550311911658
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/opp/script_opp_en.txt
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