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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we say "commutative" in this case ?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah stuff like that really ain't it. It works in a few use cases, but is objectively wrong and detracts from understanding the topic properly. That's why I teach percentages as the fractions they are. By the time you learn percentages, you already know multiplying fractions is commutative, so the trick still works, and you also understand why.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that’s why I teach percentages as the fractions they are

What about pi%?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's pi/100 still. Didn't say it was a rational number, just that it was a fraction. Though I don't see a context where it'd make sense.