Division and subtraction are syntactic sugar for multiplication and addition.
Can you tell me a bit more about how you mean this? I searched a bit but only basic primary school level resources about the relationship between addition and subtraction came up.
Do you mean like subtraction is just adding a negative number, and division is just multiplication by the inverse of a number? In that case I don’t really see how it simplifies things much because negatives and inverses still need as much definition.
Or are you talking about bit-wise operations like a computer would use to do these things?
Can you tell me a bit more about how you mean this? I searched a bit but only basic primary school level resources about the relationship between addition and subtraction came up.
Do you mean like subtraction is just adding a negative number, and division is just multiplication by the inverse of a number? In that case I don’t really see how it simplifies things much because negatives and inverses still need as much definition. Or are you talking about bit-wise operations like a computer would use to do these things?
But hard to write this with the limitations of text but essentially it can be written as multiplication of fractions.
2 ÷ 2 ÷ 2 ÷ 2
2 x ½ x ½ x ½
Personally, I think the second form is easier to visualize and reason about, it can also can be simplified to use an exponent.