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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] 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) (4 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] 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

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