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You’d think we would’ve solve this with Einstein or Aristotle or something.
It's not a math problem, it's a communication problem. The person who wrote it down didn't make themselves clear
It's totally clear. It's a number divided by a factorised term, as per The Distributive Law and Terms.
As if, people still can't agree if zero is a natural number either
Indeed it was already solved more than 100 years ago. The issue isn't that it's "ambiguous" - it isn't - it's that people have forgotten what they were taught (students don't get this wrong - only adults). i.e. The Distributive Law and Terms.