• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    It means

    A ÷ B(C) which is equivalent to A ÷ (B*C)
    

    I literally just explained this. The Parenthesis takes priority over multiplication and division outright.

    Maybe
    B*C = B(C)
    But
    A ÷ B(C) =! A ÷ B * C
    
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      11 months ago

      No. It’s ambiguous. In a math book or written by anyone that actually uses math, you don’t have a “%”

      You group stuff below the line, and you use parens and brackets to group things like (a + b) and (x)(y) so that it is not ambiguous.

      2/xy would be almost always interpreted differently than 2/x(x+y) which is ambiguous and could mean (2/x)(x+y) or 2/[(x)(x+y)]

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        11 months ago

        You continue to say it’s ambiguous, but the most commonly used convention on earth very clearly prioritizes parenthesis. It is not ambiguous.