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https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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[-] relevants@feddit.de 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Actually the correct answer is clearly 0.2609 if you follow the order of operations correctly:

6/2(1+2)
= 6/23
= 0.26

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah man, distribute the 2.
6/2(1+2)
= 6/2+4
= 3+4
= 7

This is like 4st grayed maff.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

🤣 I'm not sure if you read the post but I also wrote about that (the paragraph right before "What about the real world?")

[-] relevants@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I did read the post (well done btw), but I guess I must have missed that. And here I thought I was a comedic genius

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

@relevants you truly are the smartest of all men

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