When slashing fractions, respect the following con- ventions. In mathematical formulas this is the accepted order of operations: (1) raising to a power, (2) multiplication, (3) division, (4) addition and subtraction.

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 04:48:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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   @ned @jerrymacgp
   Also FWIW: there’s a remarkable lack of guidance on this question of order of operations for slashed (solidus) fraction from official math typesetting sources. AMS and IEEE Style guides are silent; Mathematical Writing (Knuth et al) and Mathematics Into Type (Ellen Swanson) say nothing AFAICT.

   This guide, however, does explicitly state the rule as Ned (and I would expect most mathematicians) understand it:
   https://cdn.journals.aps.org/files/styleguide-pr.pdf
   Item IV.E.1(e):