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It just now occurred to me that the solution is to make a xacro macro wrap all the math on the arguments and the call to the macro reference the arg:

 <xacro:macro name="foo" params="chassis_length" >
     ... do something with ${chassis_length/2}
 <xacro::macro>

 <xacro:foo chassis_length="$(arg chassis_length)">

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