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minus-squarederphurr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoNo there is no clear right answer because it is ambiguous. You would never seen it written that way. Does it mean A÷[(B)©] or A÷B*C
minus-squaredoctorcrimson@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIt 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
minus-squarederphurr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoNo. 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)]
minus-squaredoctorcrimson@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYou continue to say it’s ambiguous, but the most commonly used convention on earth very clearly prioritizes parenthesis. It is not ambiguous.
No there is no clear right answer because it is ambiguous. You would never seen it written that way.
Does it mean A÷[(B)©] or A÷B*C
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 * CNo. 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)]
You continue to say it’s ambiguous, but the most commonly used convention on earth very clearly prioritizes parenthesis. It is not ambiguous.
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