• derphurr@lemmy.world
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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)]

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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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.