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 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

Magnitudes commensurable, are those which one and the same measure doth measure: Contrariwise, Magnitudes incommensurable are those, which the same measure cannot measure.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

In the modern treatment by limits the proof is divided into two parts: first, for commensurable bases; and second, for incommensurable ones.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene