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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’d think we would’ve solve this with Einstein or Aristotle or something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a math problem, it's a communication problem. The person who wrote it down didn't make themselves clear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's totally clear. It's a number divided by a factorised term, as per The Distributive Law and Terms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Indeed it was already solved more than 100 years ago. The issue isn't that it's "ambiguous" - it isn't - it's that people have forgotten what they were taught (students don't get this wrong - only adults). i.e. The Distributive Law and Terms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As if, people still can't agree if zero is a natural number either