> Quite apart from precedence rules, one of the "rules" which is
> "universal" ([tm] again) is that multiplication is commutative.
> ie A x B =3D B x A

That is true for all values of a and B, but not necessarily for all=20
textual fragments that you can substitute for A and B, especially when *=20
and / are interpreted as equal precedence (or / higher than *).

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