guzzintas and widjadijas

[rivka_nikola]

Yes... sadly... I had a blonde moment... for the first time in decades. Erm... well... DECADE, given my age

Comments

[insane_genius7]

Multiplication and division are the same thing.

[rivka_nikola]

The act of DIVIDING in of itself is different. You don't break down what goes into what in multiplication. You just expand.

The basic principles are merely inversed, this is true, but they are by no means identical.

[insane_genius7]

every act of multiplying (with one set of exceptions) has an twin who is a multiplication problem. every division problem has a twin who is a multiplication problem. {Well, until you get into really weird math, and there it isn't the same!!}

[aislin_the_elf]

I agree w/Ben. I tried to understand what logical fallacy you had made that they were all laughing at you for but couldn't, so apparently I made it too. Then I saw your sentence about multiplication but...I still think you're right. This is how I was taught multiplication: 6x2=12, read six times two equals twelve, reread six "guzzinta" twelve two times. I didn't learn that phrasing for division, but multiplication.

Go punch your family on my behalf. lol jk

[rivka_nikola]

They are SO not the same thing. If they were the same thing they wouldn't be separate functions.

Dividing: you are REDUCING your final answer.

Multiplying: you are INCREASING your final answer.

It's like saying turning a vaccum-cleaner on "suck" does the same thing as "blow". (no sexual pun intended)

[aislin_the_elf]

Yeah, when you use them in math, they are separate functions (though highly related) but when you say it in words and not in the context of a mathematical problem, it becomes subjective - a matter of interpretation. I think it is just as accurate to view your father's sentence as multiplication as it is division.