The method to divide fractions is to keep the first fraction the same, turn the divide sign into a multiply and turn the second fraction upside down. This is known as multiplying by the reciprocal.

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Parsing algebraic expressions is always a pain. If you need to compute, say, 2+4*2, the answer should be the same as (2 + (4 *2)), not ((2 + 4) * 2) — in other words, the right answer is 10, not 12.

Let 𝐾 be a number field with algebraic closure K¯, and let 𝑆 be a finite set of places of 𝐾 containing all the infinite ones. Let Γ₀ be a finitely generated subgroup of Gm(K¯), and let Γ⊂Gm(K¯) be ...