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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6 / 2 * 3

Semi-related: something in me wants to read that as 6 / (2*3), because 6 * 3 / 2 feels like a much more 'natural' way to write it

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

Semi-related: something in me wants to read that as 6 / (2*3)

100% related actually, since that's the actual next line of working out. i.e. you cannot remove brackets unless there is only 1 term left inside, a mistake which those who have prematurely removed brackets have made and ended up with the wrong answer (because it flips the 3 from being in the denominator to being in the numerator).