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

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 Smith, David Eugene

He said he could not compare any sum of money with imprisonment—they were not commensurable quantities.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

In arithmetic he was the first to expound the theory of means and of proportion as applied to commensurable quantities.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little