Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
If you're asking if there is a difference in how google treats urls with forward slashes vs. without then no, there isn't much of a difference. You just have to make sure that you always reference a single, "canonical" version of the URL.
Full answer by Nina Dubovich: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/130197 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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