Quote Originally Posted by JoeHaw View Post
You old farts can say its 288 all you want but ask high school or college level classroom and they'll say it's 2. That notation (the two being right outside the parenthesis with no multiplication sign) is acknowledged in academia as a grouping of the two factors.

This problem NEVER comes up though because nobody uses slashes OR division signs anymore instead a long bar (like a fraction) is used to separate the two top to bottom.
lol wow