• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That’s not really true.

    You’ll regularly see textbooks where 3x/2y is written to mean 3x/(2y) rather than (3x/2)*y because they don’t want to format

    3x
    ----
    2y
    

    properly because that’s a terrible waste of space in many contexts.

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            Grade school is a US synonym for primary or elementary school; it doesn’t seem to be used as a term in England or Australia. Apparently, they’re often K-6 or K-8; my elementary school was K-4; some places have a middle school or junior high between grade school and high school.