re: Spinoff: X=6/2(2+1)

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and if they forgot to put the symbol needed to accurately communicate the problem given the software

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And that's the whole point of this argument. The keyboard, the ability to write equations on a forum, and the way you write the problem. / is equal to ÷. But sometimes, when written in a straight line like this case, people interpret / as if the problem was written like this:

x=____6_____
2(2+1)

as if everything after the / is under what comes before it.