2/3 Doesn't SEEM Like a Big Deal, But It Is #shorts

Think about how people discovered fractions and what problem they were meant to solve. How do we take a thing and express its division into smaller equal parts? A lot of little somethings add up to 1... until 2/3 came along. Using a numerator that isn't 1 doesn't sound like much, but it was a massive conceptual leap for humanity. #shorts

[uxgulhc]

Isn't it essentially two 1/3s? I don't really see the conceptual milestone here

[LillyianPuppy]

The first caveman takes 2 out of 3 steaks.
Everyone else: He's a witch!!!

[GrownUpDemon]

I now feel like he somehow makes easy things difficult to understand

[jegersoulmind]

he explained something that normal, so ridiculous with so much energy, it made me cry

[adoptahighway]

This is the overthinking you have on a math test

[TheOrigamiGenius]

The strangest thing about 2/3 is that it's the chances of a cleric villager trading enderpearls, yet every time I level him up to it, he trades glass bottles. Weird eh?

[finnfoster]

when mathematics studios dropped 2/5 the whole village was going crazy

[duxoakende]

Y'all really showing you don't understand how massive little discoveries like this was to us as a species. Things we take for granted: zero, exponents, percentages, etc. All very simple grade school math, very intuitive. But literally revolutionary concepts when discovered. Imagine how different your idea of math would be if you didn't consider zero a number.

[LittleBananaJoe]

But what’s even weirder is that 3 of those units make 2 whole things. Completely wild. Unbelievable even. No one has even thought about this before.

[videogamefreak]

Type of guy who explains something super simple and somehow makes it more difficult to understand.

[benebad]

"11 is the weirdest number because it's the first number to contain two digits that are also the exact same number.
Mind. Blown."

[Mobus_]

I'm not sure if he's laying down or standing up.

[unknownedleaf]

“okay hear me out, you have 1, 2, 3s right?”
“yeah”
“what if you had 1/3 then 2/3?”
“y-you genius..! how did you do that?!”

[shashvatpapne]

Tbh I didn't really get what's so weird about this ... It's like saying ... "10 is the weirdest number because it was the first number with 2 DIGITS...like share and subscribe for more content like this" lol 😂

[UltimateViper]

2/3 would be conceptually 1/3 + 1/3 the question becomes what came first 2/3 or 3/4? I would position that due to equal division from 1/2 of a whole to 1/2 of 1/2 being 1/4 it would result into 3/4 coming before 2/3.

[ProSquidGaming]

“A lot actually”
Shows one example that isn’t even that weird

[lemonlime]

To elaborate, Egyptians didn't use numerators greater than one—instead they wrote the sum of different unit fractions. So ⅔ = ⅓ + ⅓ wouldn't be allowed, since the fractions are the same. Instead, they would use something like ⅔ = ½ + ⅙. Given this, having numerators greater than one is quite the breakthrough (although there is evidence that the Egyptians used symbols for ⅔ and ¾ specifically, given how common these two get used).

[driota]

1/1.5: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[heinzdoofenshmirtz]

This made me realize something. For example I’ll use 5/6. Any fraction multiplied by the denominator will become the numerator as a whole number. 5/6 x 6 = 5
2/3 = 2

[legendofnone]

Bender: there were ones and zeros.... then there was a 2!
Fry: there's no such things as twos