Let’s say you have a division. You’ve got 3/2, where 3 might be acres and 2 might be brothers so from there you could deduce that the division just means that the 3 acres of land will be distributed between two brothers. Summation and multiplication are quite straight forward, but what the hell does one do with multiplication and exponentiation? If I got 20 N-m of torque, wtf does the multiplication tells me there? If something follows a square root?
Please feel free to add any other operations to these. Thanks!
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You may find it interesting to know that early mathematics was literally just geometry. Algebra and equations didn’t exist. Even the number zero didn’t exist. Mathematics was basically always constructed as a word problem and generally mathematical operations were performed to find a value equal to some length.
I say this to imply that mathematics, in general, was all physically realizable at first.
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