Interesting interpritation

The problem is that it's hard to know how to make sense of
>
>  1/2/3
>
> (as a pair of quotients, rather than a date, which has its own
> problems!)
>
> This doesn't come from problems of operator precedence, but rather from
> the fact that "/" isn't associative. Fortunately, people make things
> much more obvious when scribbling on paper.
>
> I should say, my immediate interpretation of the above is (1/2)/3, but
> I've spent a significant fraction of my life able to program in C, so I
> suspect that C/Algol/whatever's heritage has more influence on me than
> anything mathematical.


I would have interpreted it as 1/(2/3) or the reciprocal of 2/3 but that is
probably from my electronics background at collage where  1/(function) is
common.
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