I didn't mean the word context in any technical sense. I'll try a simpler illustration:
Say A=4
What is 1/2A ?
Is it (1/2)A , so 2
Or is it 1/(2A), so 1/8
Most programming languages can't write 2A, they effectively write 1 / 2 x A. Does that change the answer?
So what about 1/2(A)...