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 nostr:npub1k4qmle0sq0u0fwfz8l7zr85j3ag07z0v3lzj7xrkz5v6sfxdd00ss73lsq I just don't think it's wrong to take the division symbol (whichever it is) as flattened fractional notation. It's just a little more subtle to explain than BEDMAS so it causes confusion between the different styles. Do university-level textbooks conform fully to BEDMAS now? The math profs I follow on Youtube all follow fractional notation, proofs I see online all follow fractional notation. It seems to me that only relative newcomers to math expressions would dogmatically follow BEDMAS.