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same as
x * .5 = .25
if that somehow helps yaI suspect people might be getting confused by this because of colloquialisms like "divided in half", "divided in the middle", "divided by two"
things is, math doesn't care about idioms
another area in mathematics that I've seen ppl (myself included lmao) suffer from this is propositional logic. like with the non exclusive nature of the OR operator
but this is all just a wild guess
I definitely struggle with any math that I can't visualize in a physical way.
Sometimes it clicks if you graph it out with the confusing values on axes.