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Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:07:55 2011 No.2972753 [Reply] [Original]

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:08:55 2011 No.2972759 Welcome to the world of niggers that use the division sign from grade 2 and hug PEMDAS like they hug dick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:09:55 2011 No.2972761 im curious if the people who vote 1 would change their mind if it was wrote as 6 / 2 * (1+2)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:13:55 2011 No.2972789 >>2972753 Those idiots who voted 1 should probably read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication#Notation_and_terminology

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:15:55 2011 No.2972799 To be fair, because a division bar is a grouping symbol and thus doesn't require parentheses, it could be interpreted as 6/6 pretty easily. This is why you don't use that division sign. (Fun fact: it's called an obelus.)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:15:55 2011 No.2972801 why is there 100 threads about this every day, its old and everyone has seen it

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:16:55 2011 No.2972808 >>2972799 i always assumed the answer 1 is because 2(1+2) looks like its one term because theres no sign between them

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:18:55 2011 No.2972811 File: 45 KB, 500x380, lol1276858116734.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2972799 > a division bar is a grouping symbol and thus doesn't require parentheses

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:23:55 2011 No.2972832 >>2972799 You are stupid.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:30:55 2011 No.2972849 yeah i was laughing about it too, i new people would get it wrong, i didnt know it was about 4/9 of the people who answered it

>>	aether Sat Apr 30 16:45:55 2011 No.2972919 File: 3 KB, 184x172, 1303409338293.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:50:55 2011 No.2972947 Everyone angrily states what answer they think is correct but I don't think I've ever seen anyone explain in detail WHY? Personally I think it's 9, could someone explain why it's not? Or why it most certainly is?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:53:55 2011 No.2972970 I may be an idiot when it comes to maths, but at least I'm not worse than 44% of those fags. Feels good, man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:53:55 2011 No.2972971 >>2972947 6 / 2(1+2)=9 3*3=9

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:55:55 2011 No.2972986 Order of operations is BIDMAS Brackets, indices, division, multiplication, addtion, subtraction. If you follow that you get 9.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:55:55 2011 No.2972989 >>2972947 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6%2F2%281%2B2%29+%3D

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:55:55 2011 No.2972990 PEMDAS is for fags if u use PEMDAS, then u are a fag

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:55:55 2011 No.2972991

I don't think that it's necessarily "stupid" if people get 1 instead of 9. Mathematical notation, unlike math itself, is a human construction. Therefore, getting it wrong doesn't show a lack of intelligence, it just shows a faulty memory of notational rules.
For the record, I got 9 the first time I saw this, as should anyone who does math with any regularity.

‮‬ !.OPIsFAG5Y Sat Apr 30 16:56:55 2011 No.2973001
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>>2972947

The whole thing boils down to how you define a missing operation.

9 assumes that it's just a multiplication, 1 assumes that it implies both a multiplication AND parentheses for its factors.

So why would you imply parentheses? There's no reason to do that apart from being TOO FUCKING LAZY to write yet another set of rounded brackets.

And don't give me that whole mnemonic or acronym shit if you don't have a clue about what it MEANS.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:58:55 2011 No.2973012 File: 31 KB, 640x310, 1300059620891.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >facebook

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:58:55 2011 No.2973019 File: 28 KB, 472x248, 1297228583439.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >bookface

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 16:59:55 2011 No.2973021 <div class="math">6\div 2(1+2) = \frac{6}{2} \times (1+2) = 3 \times 3 = 9</div> <div class="math">6\div 2(1+2) \neq \frac{6}{2(1+2)}</div>

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:00:55 2011 No.2973028 File: 210 KB, 479x1286, 1295687135767.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ragebook

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:01:55 2011 No.2973036 >>2973012 >>2973019 They're trolls right? Right?

>>	Adolf_Hipster Of Neo Germany Sat Apr 30 17:03:55 2011 No.2973049 Jesus Christ.....Darwin weeps!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:03:55 2011 No.2973056 >>2973036 'fraid not, son.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:04:55 2011 No.2973060 >>2973028 >>2973019 >>2973012 MORE OF THESE PLEASE

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:04:55 2011 No.2973061

Don't feed these threads.

It is simple math and people who can't do it and can't figure out after the numerous threads on /sci/, should seriously give up trolling.

/sci/ is filling up with these same troll threads every day and so put an end to it and don't reply/bump them!

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:05:50 2011 No.2973072 [DELETED]

>>2973061
Don't feed these threads.

It is simple math and people who can't do it and can't figure out after the numerous threads on /sci/, should seriously give up trolling.

/sci/ is filling up with these same troll threads every day and so put an end to it and don't reply/bump them!

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>>	aether Sat Apr 30 17:07:55 2011 No.2973082 >>2973056 .... >>2972919 >>2972919 >>2972919 >>2972919 >>2972919

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:08:55 2011 No.2973093 >if we evolved from apes, why are their still apes doesn't understand that humans ARE apes

>>	:D !bnigGers.Q Sat Apr 30 17:14:55 2011 No.2973129 ITT: trolls trolling trolls

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:29:55 2011 No.2973231 >>2973082 Please fuck off then, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:34:55 2011 No.2973265 >>2973231 >He mad

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:34:55 2011 No.2973267 >>2973077 Fuck, that hurts. I've seen this before and it still hurts.

>>	aether Sat Apr 30 17:36:55 2011 No.2973280 File: 21 KB, 383x329, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how are viruses formed?EEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 17:39:55 2011 No.2973304 >>2973265 >He's a summerfag that doesn't know aether back to /b/ please

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