Remember, is made of copies of pieces of size ; so what we do is cut all of the \-chunks individually into pieces, and then give everyone of the little pieces we've made\. But "cut a \-chunk into pieces" is just "cut an apple into pieces, but instead of doing it to one apple, do it to a \-chunk": that is, it is , or \.
This relies on a principle "other way" introduces but, in my opinion, is not explicit enough about: . Could this be made more explicit at the end of the "other way" section? e.g. "What we've really shown here is that ".
Comments
Patrick Stevens
I think this actually belongs in the Multiplication article, but you're quite right that I've not been explicit enough. I intend to have a meditation on the various ways that the notation is consistent, but this one doesn't need any division at all so it should appear earlier.