The problem is, that’s exactly what the … is for. It is a little weird to our heads, granted, but it does allow the conversion. 0.33 is not the same thing as 0.333… The first is close to one third. The second one is one third. It’s how we express things as a decimal that don’t cleanly map to base ten. It may look funky, but it works.
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The way I think of it, there is no subtraction, and there is no division. Or square roots.
There is the singular layer of operations (the adding/subtracting layer which I think of as counting, multiplying/dividing layer which I think of as grouping, etc).
Everything within that layer is fundamentally the same thing. But we just have multiple ways of saying it.
Partly because teaching kids negative numbers is harder than subtraction, and thinking of fractions is hard enough without thinking of it as a representative process of relationships via multiplication.
Again, just how my brain does things. I’m not a mathematician or anything, but I’m pretty decent at regular math.
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