I'm adding to my list of notation ambiguities, for students entering maths into a computer. Suggestions please!
e.g. is 'x(x+1)' a product?

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In reply to @christianp

A naive parser could interpret 'x(x+1)' as 'x of x+1', and require 'x*(x+1)' for the product. But students will write x(x+1) to mean product

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