Isnt that the entire point? There is suggested ambiguity (to those who don’t know how operators work) due to how the equation is written, it could seem to be 24 or 4. But the answer is 4! which could be read as 4 being exclaimed wrongly or 4! (4 factorial) exclaimed correctly which is 24.
It’s not a gotcha, it’s a clever play on a classic argued mathematical ambiguity with a deliberately ambiguous answer to ram home the point.
Isnt that the entire point? There is suggested ambiguity (to those who don’t know how operators work) due to how the equation is written, it could seem to be 24 or 4. But the answer is 4! which could be read as 4 being exclaimed wrongly or 4! (4 factorial) exclaimed correctly which is 24.
It’s not a gotcha, it’s a clever play on a classic argued mathematical ambiguity with a deliberately ambiguous answer to ram home the point.