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[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The problem is just that its missing the units. The mass is divided, and the number of cells goes up, but the total mass of both cells stays about the same at the time of division(or maybe some of it is converted to energy that is lost from the cells to thier environment, so probably goes down), and is split between each cell.