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  You know.. dividing is like breaking something up [..]
No. What it is 'like' is totally irrelevant and actively harmful to consider if you want to be able to get anything serious done with your programming language. This is not a place to start philosophizing. For consistent arithmetic it is important to know which axioms are fulfilled. Division needs to be a mathematically clearly defined operation.


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