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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:42:07 No.7620945 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7620949 >>7620950 >>7620967

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

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

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:43:51 No.7620947 Report Delete

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c(a/b)

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:45:46 No.7620949 Report Delete

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>>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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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 06:46:07 No.7620950 Report Delete

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>>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.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 07:04:48 No.7620967 Report Delete

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>>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).

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