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by ivansavz 3888 days ago
That's what I was about to write, but I'm a +1 you instead.

Inherently, one can understand addition as adding of lengths (think stick + another stick = stick of combined length). Multiplication is about computing areas where base-times-height vs. height-times-base obviously doesn't matter.

Brett Berry, you're an ass. You know how I know? Because you suggest 5+5+5 is equally wrong as 30รท2, which has nothing to do with it.