@Awoo @LukeAlmighty this is retarded. you can always assume that if you're looking at math, an obelus functions like a solidus, since an obelus isn't supposed to be used. they become differing symbols when used in language. there are a lot of different signs that can be used for a lot of different things and it all comes down to what a population uses more often that comes to represent what the symbol actually means. the obelus was used as a subtraction symbol before, and other symbols have been used as division. yet, you still see solidus and obelus being used for division these days in most areas. if a country that doesn't use the obelus saw this equation, they wouldn't even see it as math in the first place. but to us, since we know this sign means division, we can proceed with that knowledge.

the reason it is used in math in teaching is because the dots on the top and bottom of it just represent the number you are dividing, and the number you are dividing by, with the slash being in the middle. then it helps describe to children what fractions are. even in the example from "teutsche algebra" this is how it works.

now, according to PEMDAS, you are supposed to read math left to right. PEMDAS isn't the exact truth, and when i got into high school they started changing it from PEMDAS to
P
E
MD
AS
implying that when you get to MD or AS you can do whichever one comes first in the equation when reading from left to right.

this is just some malignant autism used to feel a sense of mental superiority when the actual answer is simple. the symbols are used interchangeably and what symbol it is doesn't change the equation... the actual debate is still on what order to do things in... which is PE(MD)(AS) left to right.