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minus-squaredoctorcrimson@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·1 year agoI think when a number or variable is adjacent a bracket or parenthesis then it’s distribution to the terms within should always take place before any other multiplication or division outside of it. I think there is a clear right answer and it’s 1.
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-up2arrow-down1·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.
minus-squareAnd009@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoIt’s 16, addition in bracket comes first
I think when a number or variable is adjacent a bracket or parenthesis then it’s distribution to the terms within should always take place before any other multiplication or division outside of it. I think there is a clear right answer and it’s 1.
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
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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.
It’s 16, addition in bracket comes first