Comment on SBA #119 maths
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoIt was just because MarkDown doesn’t really make mathematical notation easy. The point is that with a slash, the 6 is over the entire 2(3) divisor. It’s the difference between these:
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You can even see that the automatic solution (in yellow) parses the two differently. In the first example, it correctly resolves the 2(3) first. But in the second, it parses the 6÷2 first, because it is left ambiguous.