RE: Math problem that is driving the Internet crazy
August 4, 2019 at 2:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 2:43 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 4, 2019 at 1:26 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(August 3, 2019 at 8:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Not sure where you're getting the 0.5 from? Perhaps you misunderstood the question?
And it's a typical school math problem. 8 is written as 2*(2+2) because that's what they do at school to quiz the student. And plus, it's not supposed to be grouped together to equal 8 anyway.
The issue is that, in this case, a lot of people are not following the modern PEMDAS rule properly and are treating the last three numbers as a quantity together. That is, by modern convention, wrong.
ETA: I see what you mean by the 0.5 bit. No, that's not how we're getting to 16. Read my OP again to see how we got there.
Why would I read the wrong again? 8/0.5 = 16. Thus your divisor must perforce equal 0.5. Thus you are claiming that 2*(2 +2)=0.5. And that is idiotic.
In order to artificially create the "problem" you are artificially fucking up all normal math rules for no reason other than to invent the "problem" out of whole cloth.
If that is how you choose to waste your time it is nobody's problem but yours. All you are doing is moving numbers from below the line to above the line arbitrarily. In effect, you are claiming that one can say 1/2=2/1 and that is mere nonsense.
You're not paying attention. To get to 16, you don't divide 8 by the quantity of 2(2+2). What you do is divide 8 by 2 and then multiply the quotient of that by (2+2) to get 16.
Don't act all haughty about this. If you check it in some of the calculators the answer they give you is 16 because to do the PEMDAS rule right, you have to not group the last 3 numbers together. Otherwise you're adding an extra set of parentheses that is not in the original.
