RE: Math problem that is driving the Internet crazy
August 3, 2019 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2019 at 9:45 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 3, 2019 at 3:40 am)Mathilda Wrote: These Maths problems are deliberately ambiguous so people argue about it and the meme goes viral. e.g . memes consisting of multiple choice questions, with each option using different icons for each value and asking you which is the correct answer.
Ok after much researching, I'm going to probably be annoying here and argue that, while the question could have been worded better, it is not [by modern convention] ambiguous.
This isn't like the blue vs good dress thingy, rather this is more like a common error that lots of people (including very smart people) make by implicitly adding an extra rule to their approach (like otherwise smart people who consistently write its instead of it's and vice versa)
Ignoramus is correct, though. Back in the old days (before any of us were born) the answer would've been 1. Today the answer is 16.
