symbol '/'. That is, expressions such as are avoided in favor of or .

Multiplication denoted by juxtaposition (also known as implied multiplication) creates a visual unit and is often given higher precedence than most other operations. In academic literature, when inline fractions are combined with implied multiplication without explicit parentheses, the multiplication is conventionally interpreted as having higher precedence than division, so that, e.g., 1 / 2''n'' is interpreted