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About? You haven't pointed out anything that's wrong.
Oh, you're one of those people. Good, maybe we can finally get an answer then (this was also talked about in the blog). What other interpretation of an obelus is possible other than division? People keep saying it's ambiguous, but no-one has ever said why (other than some stuff that makes no sense in the context, as explained in the blog)
Yes, and sometimes people call Koalas "Koala bears", but that doesn't mean they're bears. Now bearing that in mind, read again what Khan said - the page which is called "Distributive property explained", not "Distributive Law explained".
Wait till you hear that's not a rule of Maths.
Umm, never said anything of the kind...