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[priority] parse 3x/5 as 3x / 5 instead of 3 x/5 #71

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Parse 3x/5 as 3x / 5 instead of 3 x/5. It makes more sense to me and is what mathjs doe (pretty sure).

Spacing matters though - 3 x/5 should stay a multiplication between a 3 and x/5. I think this applies to any implicit multiplication? e.g. (2x+3)(3x+5)/2x would be (2x+3)(3x+5) / 2x - but we didn't decide on that earlier so feel free to debate that.

Aside: this was an interesting thing to me because I wonder how a brain interprets 3x/5 when it reads it. The way it's parsed affects how it's displayed to the user as well as the mathsteps algorithm so it really is part of the teaching too. I wonder how most brains interpret 3x/5? My guess is 3x / 5 though.

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