💬 Reply by catmisgivings

2024-11-22 ┃ RE: futurebird

@futurebird so, I understood the description of what division *is* really well from the get go, but for some reason I had a hard time understanding why you *do* it differently from the other operations.
Subtraction: Opposite-adding
Multiplication: Adding a bunch of times
Exponents: as adding is to Multiplication, so is Multiplication to raising things to powers
Division: okay forget about adding for a minute, we're going to draw a weird shape around the number we want to divide and

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