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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There is no physical meaning, in the sense you seem to be using, for mathematical operations. They’re just a way to use two concepts to indicate a third; as such, they only apply to ideas. Those ideas can be mapped onto physical situations in turn.
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