The joy and trouble of division

Learning long-form division in school confused me.

Take something, and divide it equally. If it doesn't fit the prescribed amount wanted, it's a remainder. "But," I argued, "why can't the remainder be shared?"

"It's not enough, so it's a remainder."

I later learned about decimals, which cleared my conscience.

I've gone on record many, many times saying that I don't like math... but there is a certain poetry to the terminology used.

In real life, there are many remainders that can't be expressed as numbers.