(August 3, 2019 at 8:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(August 3, 2019 at 7:22 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Correct answer, LOL
What are you dividing the "8" by? You are claiming to divide the "8" by 0.5. Thus you are claiming that 2*(2+2)=0.5. Or 8 = 0.5. That is a stupid claim.
The divisor is 8. You can attempt to make the divisor equal 0.5 all you want. But it isn't.
The moronic trick is to break up the terms into pointless segments. Why write "8" as 2*(2 + 2)? That is 8 no matter how you slice it. And 8/8 is one. The only reason to write 8 as 2(2 + 2) is an intentional attempt to mislead in much the same way as I could mathematically prove that 2=1 using the same lame tactic.
This seems to impress some people. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps they are attempting to buy a seat at the intellectual table, I don't know.
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.
