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 Smith, David Eugene

Consequently π2 cannot be commensurable: that is, π is an incommensurable quantity, and so also is π2.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

But the motives to action are, like the physical forces, commensurable.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir