I know a bit about math. You add one to another and get two divide two and get two separate ones. Do you think that 1 wanted to be divided? What if it was happy under the aid of the other one? What if they were meant for each other?
You multiply x by y. X and y don't go together, it's by nature. But it's by choice that they still collide together, and x and y suddenly seem indifferent.
You divide x by y. After bonding for so long, after understanding each of their incompatibility issues and trying to mend them to better fit, they're finally divided. One is now without the other, the other is without that one, and they are both separate variables in a cold world. It's by nature that they remain separate, but it's by choice that they still remember.