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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 04:33:37 JST Paul Cantrell

   • jerrymacgp
   • Ned Yeung

   @ned @jerrymacgp
   If we substitute /, 1 is the correct answer in almost every programming language, FWIW. That, not generational differences, may be the source of some of the argument.

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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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     • jerrymacgp
     • Ned Yeung

     @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):

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:02:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It’s a partial list; there are many mathematical operators not shown there: exponentiation, functions with parens (f(x)), fns without parens (cos, log, etc), subscripts, sums, integrals, etc etc etc.

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     💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 (smartmanapps@dotnet.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:02:37 JST 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱

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     • Ned Yeung

     @inthehands @ned @jerrymacgp
     (1) should be brackets, THEN the rest!