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a/bc = ?
c(a/b) or a/(bc) ?

I feel like most people that do higher math would treat bc as a single term.

>> No.7620947

c(a/b)

>> No.7620949

>>7620945
>using slash for anything but programming
>not using paren for ambiguities like this
How do you want your math, fam?
JUST

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7620950

>>7620945
We've had this thread a thousand times.
The pic is photoshopped.
a/bc is not "proper" math, since division and multiplication are tied for order of precedence.
Most people treat left-to-right as a "tiebreaker", since most computer programming languages do the same, but the Nuns at Sacred Heart will tell you it's gibberish.
...and we're done.

>> No.7620967

>>7620945

Technically a/bc = c*a/b, but sometimes people will abuse the notation and write say expression/2hbar because people know from the context that it's to be interpreted as expression/(2hbar).