Essentially, division of X by Y is the answer to the question “how many Ys do I need to add together to get X?”

People, for the most part, seems to understand this. However, if my recollection of 9th grade math class is accurate, everyone flips out when you change “add” to “multiply.”

This is effectively what logarithms are: the answer to the question “How many Ys do I need to multiply together to get X?”