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Erika/Units.lean

Two thirds, exactly.

A quarter system runs three terms a year where a semester system runs two, so a quarter unit carries two thirds of the classroom time. The conversion is multiplication by 2/3 one way and 3/2 the other. Done in exact rationals, the round trip is the identity: convert quarter units to semester and back and you have the number you started with, with no drift. Done in floating point it is nearly the identity, which is a different thing, and the difference shows up at exactly the boundary cases where a requirement is met or missed by a hair.

× 2/3× 3/2exact

Erika/Nursing.lean

Five quarter units of A and P are not five semester units.

This is the case that comes up most. A student transfers a five-quarter-unit anatomy and physiology course into a program asking for five semester units. The conversion gives ten thirds, about 3.33, and there is a shortfall of one and two thirds units. Nothing has gone wrong and nobody miscounted. The general fact is proved: for any positive quantity of quarter units, the semester figure is strictly smaller, so a quarter-system transcript systematically needs more coursework to clear the same bar.

Erika/Units.lean

Convert the total or convert the courses. Same answer.

Conversion is linear, which sounds obvious and is worth proving, because it is the property that lets an evaluator work either way. Add up a student's quarter units and convert once, or convert each course and add the results, and the totals agree exactly. Conversion is also strictly increasing, so more quarter units never converts to fewer semester units. Together these are the properties that make a converted transcript something you can reason about instead of re-derive.

Equivalency is a map, and wider maps only help.

Articulation matches a course taken to a requirement satisfied. The corpus proves broadening that map never reduces what is satisfied, and that the courses still outstanding are exactly the requirements the map does not reach. Which agreements are in force this year is the college's answer, not this page's.