• Gnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    All the people trying to explain why division and multiplication are the same and dividing by fractions bla bla bla…

    But it’s missing the point that a cell dividing is nothing like algebraic division so the analogy just doesn’t make sense.

    Saying its “dividing in half” so its actually “x/0.5 = 2x” doesn’t make any sense because the phrase “divide in half” in every other context means “x/2”…

    Any ways if you want to model a cell dividing you should use an exponential