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 :)

  • @[email protected]
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    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

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      10 months ago

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

      This is like 4st grayed maff.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      510 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?”)

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        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