commensurable
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Difficulties have resulted from the fact that these three periods are not commensurable; that’s a fancy way of saying that one does not divide evenly into any of the others.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The analogous is not always the same as the commensurable.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
Now there can be no such unlimited succession of descending integers: consequently, it is impossible that a/b+ c/d+, etc. can have a commensurable limit.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
The clear-cut, luminous, conception of the world which expresses everything in terms of commensurable concepts is thoroughly Aristotelian.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
It is a little easier to start with the hexagon, however, for we are already nearer the circle, and the side and perimeter are both commensurable with the radius.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
