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[–] 0 points 11 months ago (10 children)

The operational order is fucked, the way I rewrote is more readable, even if you remember the order. The only reason you'd write the equation like that is to be mean, there's no reason to write it like that unless you're trying to trip people up.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

    You got it wrong on your first try, didn't you? Lol, it's not "mean" to write a math problem. The whole point of memorizing the order of operations is so that you can solve it no matter what order the equation is written in. No one wrote this problem on purpose just to make you fail to understand it, that's dumb.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    This was literally written for twitter content...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I just fail to see how you come to the conclusion that it was written in a "mean" way. It's math, there is no "nice" way to write an equation.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    it's mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we'd have this very conversion...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    But how do you know they did that? Becuase it's perfectly legit the way it's written.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Because this it's trivial to write it in a way that won't cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It's bait...

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    The operational order is fucked

    No it isn't.

    the way I rewrote is

    Wrong.

    The only reason you’d write the equation like that is

    Because it's written like that in Maths textbooks

    there’s no reason to write it like that unless you’re

    Obeying the rules of Maths, as found in Maths textbooks

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