this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Without any additional parentheses, the division sign is assumed to separate numerators and denominators within a complete expression, in which case you would reduce each separately. It's very, very marginally ambiguous at best.
Assumed by whom? Clearly not everyone.