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Do values attached to integers have implicit parentheses?
What is 48÷2(9+3)?
What is “multiplication by juxtaposition”?
What is the precedence of the concatention operator when used for multiplication?
If it's the same as multiplication, 5/7y would mean (5/7)*y.
However, it also seems reasonable to see it as 5/(7*y).
I realize I can avoid the issue by writing "5y/7" or using explicit parentheses, but am curious about the "correct" answer.
Googling was surprisingly unhelpful: most results were about the precedence of string concatention in programming languages.