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Wolfram Alpha, one of the most established semantic search engines, as well as Google, give the answer as 9. They are not wrong because they also specify how they chose to interpret the confusing division symbol.

That's because, while the principles of math aren't subject to interpretation, the symbols invented to describe it are. Unfortunately, you might not be satisfied with the answer - which is that there is no 'objectively' correct solution.

With the 6 divided by 2 symbol, there's an explicit division symbol, but there's only an implicit multiplication symbol,' said Strogatz.  'The whole issue boils down to, does implicit multiplication get higher priority than explicit division?

But the order in which operations should be applied from here is not objective. Therefore everything came down to what part of the equation you did first: expanding the bracket or carrying out the division.

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Photomath was started by an engineer and father looking to help his children with their math homework.
The app has been downloaded more than 300 million times worldwide and is available in more than 30 languages. (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee Editing by David Goodman, Elaine Hardcastle)

BRUSSELS, tutoring service online March 22 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google is set to gain unconditional EU antitrust clearance for its acquisition of Croatian maths app Photomath, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

tech giants and start-ups have in recent months attracted intense regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic amid worries that some deals may be killer acquisitions where the goal is to shut down nascent rivals.