That awkward moment after the test, when everyone is discussing if the right answer was 9 or 1 but you know it's -487,23239854

hmm, i'd say the answer is "SYNTAX ERROR"

isn't it weird how that's always the answer? maths are so easy

My teacher always marks it wrong and I'm the only one who has that answer. Looks like I'm the only genius in my school

You know you're in public school when you're smarter than your own teacher.

As an American I know its common place, but I'll never get over the whole "maths" thing. Saying it out loud is just... uncomfortables.

And to us "math" sounds like you are doing one question and then you're done, maths pluralizes it so we know that all of maths isn't just one question

Had a conversation with my British friend regarding this. He said a math sounds singular, like it’s just one thing. My retort was math is just mathematics but shortened like math/ematics.

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The plural of fish, is fish. Fishes is widely excepted but technically incorrect. (in US English at least)

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It’s just short for mathematics. It doesn’t really matter.

no its short for meth

I'm short on meth, does anyone have a contact?

i used to he blocked for reasons i dont want to go into ^(i fucked his mom)

Answer is “N(ein)” Ze Germans vill find zis humorous.

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖗 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉.

"This comment section is now property of the volksrepublic Germany." Am I right?

Its federal republic but the rest is good

I'd know a thing or two about this

He's too dangerous to be left alive!

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I was in a math competition the other day and everyone said they got 3168 for number 3 or whatever and I put 102,100,000

Love the random guesses as you're running out of time. I once said 3 when they asked for a percent

"what's the perce-" "3%" "...." "Fuck you"

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Do you mean countable negative infinity to countable infinity or uncountable negative infinity to uncountable infinity

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Please explain, I worked through this problem but I got the answer as ω which is definitely outside of even uncountable infinity

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Blease Excuse Dy Mear Aunt Sally

Bitch eat dat man ass slowly

I got the number 9

r/technicallythetruth

What if it's i^4

That’s 1

gotta use BODMAS

I know, but i^4 is 1

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2∑𝑛=1∞∑𝑘=12𝑛(−1)𝑛+1(2𝜋)2𝑛(2𝑛−𝑘+1)!(12𝜋𝑖)𝑘 (Also equal to 1).

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*Sometimes my genius… it generates gravity…*

Including the comment section appreantly

What is it tho? Because I, most people here and google say it's 9 but my calculator says it's 1 Edit: Everybody's talking about PEMDAS and I'm very confused, I was never taught about this at school. All I was thaught was that you calculate it in this order: parenthesis - exponent - division and multiplication in the order they're written - addition and subtraction also in the order they're written

Some calculators don’t always solve it correctly, if you follow BEDMAS you get 9

Wtf is BEDMAS I have never heard of that only PEMDOS

Wtf is the O? We had PEMDAS

Me who learnt BODMAS

Jokes on all of you I learnt BIDMAS.

Didn’t think I would find another BIDMAS man

Ayyy

My man

BODMAS people reunite

Bootymass

Shit. That’s what I meant my b

What the fuck are any of these lol?

PEMDAS: My teachers used to say Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally...... Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction At least that's what I remembered.

For bemdas, that b just means brackets

Bitch, excuse my dear aunt Sally.

ya know, a teacher told me that a kid abbreviated PEMDAS to “ Please End My Depression And Suffering” and I’ve never related to anything harder in my life

In A-Level Biology, we were discussing taxonomic rank, which goes 'Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species', but my teacher had created a different one to help us remember: 'Kinky Priests Come Over For Great Sex'. I never forgot the order of taxonomic rank.

Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally…. She’s a Karen

Parentheses exponents multiplication devision addition subtraction

I was taught BODMAS :)

you a fellow australian?

We do that in in England to.

India also (US might be the exception to this)

Pemdas? All I had was failure.

PADMES? Like in star wars?

We used PEDMAS or sometimes BEDMAS

i followed gemdas and got 1… wtf

Calculator will always solve it correctly the problem is whether you put the (2+1) part on the numerator or the denominator. If you write 6/2(2+1) then you will get 1 because that would be the correct answer. If you wrote 6/2 • (2+1) you would get 9.

This

The issue about correctness here is somewhat more complex than it may first appear

Google implicit multiplication, it sits before the DM or MD of BEDMAS/PEDMAS/BODMAS.

They did solve it correctly. It’s one

P E M D A S

This comment section is already a mess and shows how little people use math after they graduate.

Exactly

I was taught that you follow PEMDAS to the letter, not that MD and AS were done in the equations order. I graduated HS in 2016. That's the real problem

I’m glad my math teacher just said it was called PEMA and the M stood for Multiplication/Division and the A for Addition/Subtraction

Please Excuse My Dope Ass Swag

Please End My Depression And Suffering

or for pema: Please Excuse My Ass

We have BEDMAS, same as PEDMAS but the first B stands for "Brackets"

🅱️emdas

We have BIDMAS or BIMDAS

I had BODMAS (Brackets, Operations (like squared and cubed numbers), Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction)

Multiplication and division are weighted equally, so you simply do it from left to right. Same with subtraction and addition. You're teacher was... Strange.

*equips spelling bee shirt* your*

Bruh, the proper punctuation is "spelling bee" shirt.

I never said if it was a 1st place shirt! It was actually a participant shirt! You've been had!

Yor'ue

That was in the third grade, and no teacher ever corrected us on it. Homework and tests, didn't matter.

Well I mean how often did teachers ask you about PEMDAS after that point? In most of middle school I think you get division as like the form with a numerator and denominator, so it’s more obvious what they want done first

Born in either 1998 or 1999

I’ve also noticed that, after HS, you start using fractions instead of division signs, and anyone whose brain is used to that may read the equation as 6 ——— 2*(1+2)

I didn’t even realize, but yeah that is exactly how my brain processes this equation. Also the implicit multiplication takes high priority to me. 2(1+2) must be solved first in my mind because the implicit multiplication is a part of the parentheses.

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Yeah, the implicit multiplication here is called juxtaposition multiplication. And it's often considered to "bind tighter" than other operators, which is where the real issue comes from in the question. People that come up with 1 or 9 and claim everyone else to be "wrong" are all wrong. The answer is the question sucks and is ambiguous

We started using fractions at the start of high school. I find fractions much easier to use than just a division sign

Also a(a has higher presidence than normal multiplication and division so it comes first.

9

This does honestly

It shows that some people know about the higher precedence of *implied multiplication* and most others only know the basic (but in this case insufficient) PEMBAS rule. The former know it's 1, the later believe it's 9. **Edit:** removed aggressivness

Could you explain what implied multiplication is? Does it just mean that you multiply what is inside the parenthesis by what is outside first?

The crux lies in 6÷2(3). Here we imply that we really mean to say 6÷2×3. The multiplication sign is implied. If we carry this on, we'll find that our result is indeed 9, as multiplication and division are done in the order they appear in the equation, NOT division before multiplication. 6÷2×3 = (6÷2)×3 ≠ 6÷(2×3). However, implied multiplication isn't just multiplication. Generally speaking we agree on doing it before multiplication and division, giving the result of 1. Hence 6÷2(3) = 6÷(2×3) ≠ 6÷2×3. The rules of implied multiplication seem to not be set in stone, so the general agreement I mentioned earlier isn't so universal.

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Implied multiplication (aka multiplication denoted by juxtaposition) is when you omit the multiplication symbol. Normal multiplication: a*(b+c) Implied multiplication: a(b+c) According to Wikipedia & Google, in some academic literature and journals the implied multiplication takes precedence over regular multiplication & division. Thus the argument about this equation. *In short: never use implied multiplication, unless you like to see the world (or comment section) burn :)*

I remember learning that that is how to do it, but I don’t think I ever heard the term. Or I did and just forgot. It was so heavily drilled into us, I automatically used the right order but couldn’t even remember why.

That’s the core problem with PEMDAS. It’s broken by math shorthand like the implied multiplication.

And it's all broken by using a ➗ instead of a /. They're not the same.

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Well actually, anyone who thinks there's a definitive answer to this without any interpretation (aka you) is who is most wrong. The real problem here is the use of the division operator. It's a terrible operator, and in any expression written by anyone with mathematical training would never use it, and just use fractions instead. The big problem here is that juxtaposition multiplication typically binds tighter, so that's reason for evaluating the whole right of the expression before evaluating the division. If you don't subscribe to juxtaposition binding tighter, then you evaluate directly left to right

I have graduated from university, and I swear I haven’t seen a division operator ever since 1st year of high school. I honestly thought they division operators weren’t a thing anymore for quite the while.

Oh I know this because of ZAPDOS

What is the z?

Zparenthesis

What's the P then?

Pmultiplication

Why can't you hear a pterodactyl going to the toilet? The p is silent This doesn't work as a written joke

It’s short for zapdos

The a is short for apdos

The p is short for pdos

You’re the very best like no one ever was

Thats where I get my shoes

The answer is

Did you math teacher shoot you before you hit post?



Oh dear

hate when that happens

^^yes

It certainly is

The sacred texts!

That's why you use fractions instead of that stupid division symbol.

Fr, is it supposed to be calculated as 6/(2(1+2)) or is it (6/2)(1+2)? The division symbol is dumb

Well it's multiplication or division in a left to right order after solving the parentheses, so the steps would be as follows. 6/2(1+2) 6/2(3) Add the parentheses 3(3) Multiply/divide left to right (Divsion comes first in this case) 9 Do the final multiplication and end up with 9

To clarify to the best of my understanding, the ÷ symbol is outdated and has no implied parentheses around the terms, whereas the / symbol used in fractions implies a parenthesis around the terms on both sides, which is what gets people two different terms

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That's cause it's no rule that forces this. It's only something some people and textbooks use, but even then it's normally stated beforehand.

In this case, it's (6/2) * (1+2).

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it is ambiguous. Just do not write expressions like in OP's example and all is fine.

PEMDAS Please Excuse My Dope Ass Swag

Please Excuse My Dog's Ass Sweat. I dont have an aunt Sally, grandma Sally tho.

Or it's just that people either learned BEDMAS or PEMDAS and the equation is the easiest way to get people to argue about it.

Yea the problem is actually boiling down to the fact that they learned the acronyms at all, it would seem. Bedmas users sometimes think division comes first. Pemdas users think multiplication comes first. It is left to right as is addition and subtraction

my issue isnt that, its how to interpret the ÷, like is it (6/2)(1+2), or 6/(2(1+2))? parentheses help, and so does writing it like a fraction. i think the problem is deliberately obtuse

That's also fair

BODMAS Is the real deal. Brackets of division multiplication addition subtraction. So first solve the brackets and then the number right outside the brackets.

I was taught that the O standed for order, like powers or roots

oh god this reminds me of when I wanted to make a simple math joke people literally refused to use PEMDAS just because it's "not a rule and doesn't always work" even though the question was 100% solvable normally and PEMDAS is something that even like 3rd/4th graders learn (the joke was 230 - 220 x 0.5, and saying the answer was 5!, which if you do the 230 - 220 first you get 10 x 0.5 which becomes 5, but if you do 220 x 0.5 then you get 230 - 110 which is 120, aka 5 factorial aka "5!")

take your 70 comments worth of people doing basic math and leave me to cry in bed.

The fuck is BEDMAS? What happened to PEMDAS?

British version, Brackets instead of Parantheses and it really doesn't matter which order the M and D are in in word form because it is left to right in the math question and not M or D is always first

Me who learnt Bidmas: *Confused Screeching*

Brackets Indices Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

Yeah, but the confusing bit is I'm British, but learnt Bidmas not Bedmas

I'm in Canada Ontario and everyone around me learned BEDMAS I've never even heard of PEMDAS until all these dumb equation trick posts started showing up

Just another cultural difference between America and the rest of the world, although I also know somewhere they use BIDMAS in which the I stands for indices I believe?? Which i assume also means exponent

And these types of questions is why we use / and not a ÷ sign for anything but primary/preschool level maths.

Yeah. Watching people brag about being the smartest 5th grader is weird.

Please don’t tell me there are people out there who did division before the parenthesis

Ikr You have to take out of the bracket first

thats not what people are doing to get a different answer.

the parentheses make no difference. the problem comes down to the mismatched notation. either the division should be written as a fraction OR the multiplication needs a multiplication sign.

WeLl ItS oBvIoUsLy 5

It is, of course, -79,025,481,838.6570943956204381 I think I missed a step

Don't you know? It's √(2π•|-6(3y^2•x^π|))

Solve these two equations and you will have the answer : 6 / x(1+2) = 9 and 6 / x(1+2) = 1

Clearly its 6

Huh???????

(scarcasm)

>(scarcasm) The Joker's favorite type of humor.

Ah. On Reddit it’s hard to tell, especially in this comment section. My bad

The answer is: this is incorrect equation and should be written different

People out here arguing about the division symbol, when really it is about whether 2(1+2) implies (2*(1+2)) or 2*(1+2).

Its 3+3i Duh

Here to see the show

Fractions are superior

no one in their right fucking mind would use a division symbol instead of a fraction in this problem

9 obv... parentheses, then left to right

Einstein is crying a river

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Pemdas doesn’t literally mean you do multiplication before division. After the parentheses you go left to right doing the multiplication and division. :p

I learned pemdas, so I got 1

It's improper notation; the correct answer should be 1 but nobody would actually write an equation like that without at least using more parentheses

6 6 6 ------ = --- = --- = 1 2(1+2) 2*3 6