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Wolfram gets it wrong?

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: John Stevenson
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Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: John Stevenson

I think you would get the result 950/X² from the input 38/(((x) (x/5) (0.0047625))/(0.0238125)). The division is not associative: (a/b)/c is not the same as a/(b/c), even if the two-dimensional fraction notation obscures this fact with fraction lines of the same length and thickness.

POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
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