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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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] 87 points 11 months ago (19 children)

If you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

I beg to differ. You utter fool! You created a comment section yourself on lemmy and you are clearly wrong about everything!

You take the mean of 1 and 9 which is 4.5!

/j

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

🤣 I wasn't even sure if I should post it on lemmy. I mainly wrote it so I can post it under other peoples posts that actually are intended to artificially create drama to hopefully show enough people what the actual problems are with those puzzles.

But I probably am a fool and this is not going anywhere because most people won't read a 30min article about those math problems :-)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

@relevants you truly are the smartest of all men

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