Joseph Webb said:
No dude, you're wrong. / always implies a fraction, yes, ALWAYS. / does not always imply that EVERYTHING following it is a fraction. 1/2+1 = 3/2, it does not equal 1/3. You aren't as aware of how to write out math as you think you are if you really think that there's any GOOD reason you can get this question wrong.
I'm quite aware how we write math HERE... just because there's one math doesn't mean there aren't multiple way to write it and that no one has different symbols for the operations...
As you pointed out, we're not computers, we don't have standardised programs that run us, and math didn't just appear in one place and everyone just followed some sacred law about what symbol means what...
It's the same thing with using the metric system... it's a standard that not everyone is using, doesn't mean they're not measuring the same thing... and just because you only ever heard of the metric system doesn't mean there aren't others.
Yes, math symbols aren't that different as m vs ft, but that doesn't mean there's no variation at all on the entire planet, remember that until pretty recently travel to the other side of the world wasn't a matter of hours.