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You're being dishonest in your reasoning.

> In normal mathematical notation, 1/3 is interpreted as 1/3 of 1

Why would you deny the possibility of 1 being 1 list of fruits rather than 1 fruit?

In the original example, it was 1 table of students, not 1 student.

Everything you say after that is based on this broken assumption.



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