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
The main proposition, that two magnitudes balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes, is proved first for commensurable and then for incommensurable magnitudes.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little
It is obvious that every terminating continued fraction reduces to a commensurable number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
Now a quantitative ratio is between commensurable quantities.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
