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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by wischi@programming.dev to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The real question here is BODMAS or PEMDAS?

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

POOTIS or PINGAS?

[-] hashbrowns4life@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Up here in the canada, we did BEDMAS

Brackets, Exponents, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Exponents, Oxponents, I honestly could give less of a shit until now...

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago

Also PIMDAS (we had this conversation in my class this semester as we had a very wide range of ages and regions present in the class) (I is for indices) (I don't remember what the Colombian students said, for some reason we had a group of 3 Colombians in our class of 12 nowhere near Colombia)

That said, the question is ambiguously written. Maybe the popularity of this will result in calculators being more consistent with how they interpret implicit multiplication signs.

(my preference is to show two lines, one with the numerator and one with the divisor)

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

PIMDAS? Isn't that the same as PEMDAS?

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

So's BOMDAS etc.? Just different words for things

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Mutiplication or Division first then? Thus, BEDMAS or PEMDAS?

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