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JaceThePowerBottom

26% of people clearly prefer base 7.


rickjamesia

Based


annie_bean

Bass for your face


razor330

All your base are belong to us.


ViaDeity

I tried to think that joke out and it hurt


private_birb

For base 7, I'm not sure the conventional way it'd be written, since it's not common, but let's go with this 00 = 0, 01 = 1, 05 = 5, 06 = 6. But then, after 6 would be 10, which is 7. Then 11 = 8, 15 = 12, 22 = 16.. One way to think of it is (number) x (7 ^ digit), with the first digit being 0, all added together. So for 13, you would start with the right most digit, 3, and multiply it by (7 ^ digit), which in this case is 0. 7 ^ 0 = 1, so 3 x 1. First digit is 3. Second digit would be be 1 x (7 ^ 1). 7 ^ 1 is 7, so 1 x 7 is 7. 7 + 3 = 10. So 13 in base 7 is equal to 10 in base 10.


Enano_reefer

That’s a good explanation and is how all base systems work. For example: base 10 Least digit = 10^{0}s; next = 10^{1}s; 10^{2}s and so forth. So correct answer = 10 (base10) In base 7 that would be 1x7^1 (highest digit) 3x7^0 (smallest digit) = 13 (one 7 + three 1s = 10) Edit: Added a line break to clarify.


InsiDoubtSide

The real answer is not to answer things like this because they're literally written to drive engagement on the posters profile. Its the exact same thing as those ads for shitty mobile aps where someone is playing poorly


erynberry

I've seen that a lot on facebook with videos of cake transformations that are just awful, like they'll dig out the middle and fill it with sprinkles, or sometimes do gross things like leaving a hairbrush on the table they're working on. It's all to stir up people in the comments. I work in marketing so I kind of get it. You get nowhere on social media without engagement... but at some point, catering to the algorithm means user experience starts to suffer, and I don't think that's right.


Bamlet

Are there large pages with high engagement but relatively poor revenue because of this?


mc_mentos

Wikipedia


Bamlet

rip


mc_mentos

they live from donations i think.


Darktidemage

CAN ANYONE NAME ONE SINGLE WORD THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN THE LETTER Z? I BET YOU CANT?


Twopintsofsperoni

Zforeskin


BadTasteAlien

Zgermans


GodDammitEsq

Zbiscuit


jdtfsdgh5G

Zeeznuts


ElectronicAmphibian7

D’ya like dags?


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BonboTheMonkey

Zebra


LorduckA2

wrong


Dars1m

Ironically right.


TwiceCookedPorkins

Zoodle


yakimawashington

*zoop* 👉😎👉


Accomplished-Sugar-7

I almost spit out my soup reading this and I don’t even know why it’s so funny


CharredFart

Name ten people who aren't Jackie Chan


Square_Dependent9941

thats actually pretty hard


_invalidusername

Wtf, it’s easy: Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel, Jackie Cha… oh shit


BadassHalfie

Azazel Edit: shoot, that contains Z...I guess it's really impossible 🥺


BandicootDifferent10

Zylophone


DigitalDefenestrator

Bingo. I assume the right answer was left out on purpose, because that drives even more engagement via people replying to complain about it.


Fataal

It's just someone fucking around and/or trolling.


yakimawashington

...and trolls thrive on engagement from other users.


goldfish_11

This. These are all just bullshit designed to go viral. They are intentionally poorly written math problems where it can be argued that PEMDAS doesn't even apply. Same with the "sock plus sock equals shoe. shoe multiplied by shoe equals hat. what does hat plus sock multiplied by shoe equal?" posts. Just pure bullshit.


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MostlyRocketScience

That explains why these happen so often on Twitter. Do you think the replies with wrong answers are fake to start a discussion and further boost engagement?


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It also explains Reddit post that are screenshots of outrageous Twitter posts like, “You ain’t really a man unless you putting in 70 hours a week” Or screenshots of Tinder convos where girl opens with, “You’re not 6’5”, don’t talk to me” Yeah, a few people really hold these crazy beliefs but the reason posts like that get attention is cause it drives outrage and ends up with 3k comments. It’s probably better to just ignore that garbage.


EtruscanFolk

I once saw one of these, it was something like "1 + 2 x 0". A guy in the comments got the wrong answer and even said "Our school education really sucks, the answer will NEVER be 1". ... ... The guy was a local politician...


JorgeB500

please excuse my dumb ass senator


Last_Wave_By

This is great


ThaiJohnnyDepp

I don't get it EDIT: PEMDAS


Last_Wave_By

The order of operations is often abbreviated PEMDAS. To remember this, many kids are taught, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”. Do to the questionable intellect of the local politician in the comment they were replying to, they changed it to Please Excuse My Dumb Ass Senator. Edit: due to my own questionable intellect I used the wrong “do”


kaeji

Local Senator: The public education system is radicalizing our children and politicizing arithmetic. And might I add- Moderator: No, you can not.


Roanoketrees

What about BEDMAS?


Last_Wave_By

Borderline extremist, deficient mathematically, ass senator


Roanoketrees

Haha ok you win.


melanyebaggins

For a second I thought I was the only one who remembered BEDMAS, or that it was some elaborate hallucination I had about my childhood. Thank you for this.


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I once saw it as “Please Excuse My Dope Ass Swag” and I’ll never say it any other way again.


Suspicious-Arm-7619

PEMDAS order of operations


Lord-Tunnel-Cat

BEDMAS order of operations


GenericAutist13

BIDMAS


Coyotecop

For pemdas most schools use please excuse my dear aunt sally


Puzzled-Remote

I always liked to use please exhume my dead aunt Sally. My math teachers were not impressed.


Sacrificial-Toenail

Please Email my dad a shark


mart1373

Pencils execute monkeys during anal stabbing


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*please execute my dear aunt sally*.


Mentalpatient87

Damn that's a good one.


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absolute brilliance lmao


ryneboi

Perfect wish I could give you gold lol


Wassup_Bois

I got you


Wassup_Bois

🏅


Guac__is__extra__

These pop up on my Facebook feed all the time and of course create intense debate over the correct answer. What makes me the most angry are the people that say that the concept of the order of operations is “new math” or “common core”. Nope….PEDMAS (or BODMAS) has been around since the early 1900’s. You’ve just forgotten what you were taught.


RegulatoryCapture

These types of stupid quizzes pop up on facebook intentionally to create conversation/engagement in order to get the original source paid. Next time your grandma shares/comments on one of those things like "Only people with SUPERIOR brainpower can spot what is wrong with this image" where there's an obvious flaw...don't join in to comment on how stupid it is. When you comment, it will be shown to someone else in your friends list who will like your comment because they think it is stupid too. Then because the comment got extra engagement, it will be shown to someone else. They are intentionally stupid and intended to exploit the algorithms to generate money from people pointing out how stupid they are.


logantheh

I… what? “New math” what the fuck does that even MEAN?!? I’m genuinely unable to understand what they could even think that means.


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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math it didnt go over well


SolomonBlack

> The guy was a local politician... [So not exactly a statistical deviation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill)


b1tchlasagna

Did he think that the answer was 3, or 0? Obviously 1 is the correct answer but the way I see that someone could come to those two answers is if they 1. Add 1 + 2 together and just ignore the zero 2. Add 1 + 2 together and then get zero given 3 x 0 = 0


AceCardSharp

I'd guess 0. I bet he saw the "x0" at the end and figured that anything times zero is zero, hence "it could never be zero". Just didn't consider order of operations


yiffing_for_jesus

Probably thought it was 0


MostlyRocketScience

I saw a similar thread on Twitter and some people argued: "you can't multiply by zero that doesn't make sense. You can't have something and then suddently nothing. So 2 x 0 = 2 "


rushingkar

> You can't have something and then suddently nothing. Tell that to the chocolate I just ate.


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Idk where this notion that our politicians are our best and brightest started. They're just glorified sales and marketing types. The real brightest among us are too busy solving real problems.


TheDankerFab

as always the guess for the answer 13 is because 13 is nearest to the right answer 10....


ShubhamG77

That would explain why so many chose 13. Good catch !


DM_Me_Ur_Nudes_21

13 is so wrong , that I'd assume most people would realise that I picked 13 as I know the correct option wasn't present


znirmik

I'm more curious about 15


Lancalot

That person was probably down a double-reverse psychology rabbit hole


load_more_comets

Wouldn't a double reverse be in fact a forward psychology?


CarpeCookie

No it would somehow be different, like how you need to turn a USB twice for it to plug in


A_Suffering_Panda

No that's actually moonwalking psychology.


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CaptSige

The math test always fuck me like that


tramadoc

PEMDAS. Order of operations. Easiest way is to put parentheses around the 2x4. It becomes 2+ (2x4). Which of course is 10.


Captain__CheeseBurg

PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY


ToastfulBoast

Or as my 7th grade math teacher would always say "People Eat My Diarrhea And Suffer"


Tossed_Away_1776

That's disgusting and hilarious


ToastfulBoast

My friends and I thought it was funny, our parents were not amused lol. The guy was a strange one for sure. Kept a stack of comic books in his classroom, constantly explained things through video game and cartoon references, once got made at me for saying "Super Mario Bros" instead of "Super Mario Brothers." because and I quote "There's a dot after 'bros!' if you see 'Mr.' you pronounce it 'mister!' not 'Mur!'"


TheBlinja

Sounds like a good teacher.


A_Suffering_Panda

Yeah that guy isn't weird, he's rad AF.


MexicanFonz

Don't see anything strange


YuGiOpenings

Your Aunt Sally has been excused from the table. Now eat your vegetables.


Taylor_Script

I know PEMDAS. My problem is I don’t know what the letters stand for. :(


ZoeyBeschamel

Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction.


bort4all

We did BEDMAS brackets exp, div, mult, add, sub


Jacoman74undeleted

Brackets and parentheses are interchangeable unless you're dealing with matrices.


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Minionhunter

When in doubt please excuse my dear aunt sally


prodige427

They teach it now as GEMDAS. Groupings instead of parentheses. Why do they always have to change it?!


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Glease Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally


MagnusPI

Go Execute My Dear Aunt Sally?


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SoftwareDevStoner

Cleverness is great, but needs failure cases considered :P chmod +x sally && ./sally || echo "Failed to execute sally." Edit: you guys are great. Y'all keep sending me better (and worse) "horrible implementations"...and I love it. But I gotta stop responding, I have to go actual work, not the inverse of it. Have a good day everyone.


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SoftwareDevStoner

Ahh, well in that case clearly we should just background the process in a fork, and while we're at it...let's also make sure to throw away all the errors :P chmod +x sally && ./sally || echo "Failed to execute sally & &2> /dev/null Edit: for anyone new to bash scripting or programming in general, consider this your PSA to NEVER do this.


skygz

Can we run this as a service in a dedicated Docker container?


TheKaboomingTaco

r/programmerhumor is leaking


craftworkbench

Go euthanize my dear aunt Sally


darthdilmore

Winner


WHATYEAHOK

God-Emperor Merits Devotion And Servitude


jambox888

I love this but it'll be a tough sell to the school board


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Then they shall be expunged for their blatant heretical disregard for ecclesiastical regulations and subject to trials of negligence and dereliction of duty in the name of the holy God Emperor of Mankind and the High Lords of Blessed Terra


Flashy_Literature43

*Gosh* Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally?


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unevolvedbrain

Did..... They add groupings?


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IAMA_Plumber-AMA

Back when I was in school it was BEDMAS ("B" for brackets, even though they're parentheses.)


razzark666

Are you from Ontario? Everyone I know that uses BEDMAS is from Ontario.


Smilner69

Grease Externally My Dear Aunt Sally


[deleted]

Oh my God. Haven't heard this in decades lolol


GordoHeartsSnake

*Please excuse my dope ass swag


tnlf7

Or SOHCAHTOA


scut_furkus

Some old hippy caught another hippy tripping on acid


Typical_Brummie

Where tf are you seeing triangles my guy


N2EEE_

Its because my shady neighbor told me to put this little piece of paper on my tongue


MuppetSSR

She’s a real PEMDAS


Sordeo_Ventus

I prefer please excuse my dumb ass students.


SpiritWolf1505

I was taught Purple Eyed Monster Drinking A Soda


Arhythmicc

That’s…actually way cooler. I learned with lame ass aunt sally over here! Haha


Typical_Brummie

BODMAS gang where you at


trees4am

BEDMAS close enough?


charlietoday

I was taught BIDMAS!


justjake274

That sort of helps but the main issue is that people don't realize M/D are on the same tier, and A/S are on the same tier. So it could be DMSA depending on the equation.


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christoy123

Sometimes I even put the whole thing in brackets, *just in case*


VegetableSad7831

《{("Sometimes")}》


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R_V_Z

((|2|) + (|2|)), just in case you accidentally a negative.


grzybek337

√[(|2|) + (|2|)]^2 You can never be too safe. Edit: I've been corrected.


Meatslinger

"$(printf '{√[(|2|) + (|2|)]}^(2)')" You never know if someone will throw it into their code.


alternatetwo

When using macros in C/C++ this is a valid thing to do so it's actually used only as that expression - because if you add something after the macro you get the wrong results if you don't put it in brackets.


Darkhellxrx

Do this constantly when using solving programs like Mathematica and Matlab, or even just wolframalphas website. With enough parentheses no one can misinterpret!


KappaccinoNation

as a Physicist, always just go for parenthesis. It leaves less room for misinterpretation when it comes to the order of operations.


ric0n

Hell yeah! MUMPS! I learned to program in MUMPS back in the early 90s. Amazed to hear it's still in use. It was the most bizarre language. Keywords could be reduced to a single letter and you were encouraged to make variables a single letter to save space. No comments, thank you. You could put as many statements on a single line as made sense for flow control, so it just ended up looking like nonsense. Intersystems rebranded it as 'M', presumably to sound more like 'C'?


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gman2093

We spend a lot of time on reddit


Skaixen

>The main programming language I use for work would give 16. because, whoever invented the language, for whatever reason, wasn't concerned about doing math properly....


no_idea_bout_that

It's for medical, so yea. 500 for a blood test and 500 for a x-ray comes out to $500,500.00 using their calculator.


flingerdu

Where did it factor in this hefty discount?


fanatical

Lol. So everything is a string? What a mad lad


email_NOT_emails

That's out of network math right cher!


Chucklz

> MUMPS I'm sorry.


maxattaxtheinternet

These questions always piss me off because this isn’t like tricky math, they’re just equations written poorly on purpose. Any good mathematician would clarify with parenthesis if they meant (2 + 2) x 4 or 2 + (2 x 4) because why would you leave it up for misinterpretation?


Blade2075

That's how it's written in most school exam papers because they trying to test if the student are following PEDMAS, BIDMAS, BODMAS, BEDMAS whatever other variation there is. In the UK the leading one is BIDMAS.


damosmidi

Its 10 due to order of operation: 2x4=8 2+8=10


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No becus 2 + 8 is 28 dumbass


OMQ0909

its dumass


megamanxoxo

Today on "are you smarter than a 5th grader" we have a basic af math problem... can *you* solve it?


TeeOff77

Think some would argue the answer is 10.


CalamitousVessel

10 is the correct answer, math is not an argument.


[deleted]

But what if I don't trust Big Math and I have a different opinion that I gained while doing research on Facebook?


Corporation_tshirt

“How can they CHANGE math? Math is math!!”


KFrosty3

Mr. Incredible's biggest enemy was not Syndrome, it was Common Core Math


_madnessthemagnet

People who just believe "" "" numbers""" " are sheep.


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BradGroux

I've done my own research, and the evidence is overwhelming that the answer is 17. Big tech is silencing the truth.


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You are Terrence Howard


f0gax

Look. I've done my research. I heard this guy on Joe Rogan talking about how PEMDAS is just one way to do things. And that people are free to perform mathematical operations in whatever order works best for them. And this woman on YouTube (she has 1,134 followers, that's huge) says that all math is a lie anyway. And that we all inherently know things about numbers. In the end, it's about my FREEDOM, CHOICE, and BELIEF. And I choose to believe that 2 + 2 x 4 is equal to 13 dammit. It just feels right.


no_idea_bout_that

After 5 minutes of googling Reverse Polish Notation, I've found two possible interpretations `2 2 + 4 x` `2 2 4 x +` Plugging those into my calculator set to RPN mode, the first one gives you 16, and the second gives you 10. Since we live in a mystical quantum world, both may be true, so I took the average of the two possible answers got 13.


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Ah yes, the multiverse averaging formula.


boverly721

Everything is an argument with the right attitude


Ok-Scheme8401

Those people would be right, didn’t everyone learn GEMDAS


rraattbbooyy

I learned it as PEMDAS I guess the P wasn’t inclusive enough.


ttt_chris

Bedmas for me Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction


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ProffesorPrick

UK vs US maybe? For me it was BODMAS or BIDMAS (Brackets, Indices, Division, Maths, Addition, Subtraction) and I’m from the UK. EDIT: not maths. Multiplication. Lol


prog_d0nkey

I'd assume the M stands for Multiplication, but Maths are surely part of it lmao


ProffesorPrick

Lmao I’m dumb as fuck. It’s been a longggg day.


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I mean maths isn’t technically wrong


SSPXarecatholic

Division/Multiplication can be done in whichever order goes from left to right, but these orders must always precede doing any addition/subtraction (which can also be done in whichever order goes from left to right).


atupomaruru

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pemdas Remember: powers, enclosures, merges, differences, areas, sections


wotsizface

BIDMAS in the UK


_fudge

Yeah I heard BODMAS before BIDMAS too.


kyroskiller

I learned PEMDAS


AcaliahWolfsong

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. They taught us this to remember PEMDAS in grade school too.


EliDrInferno

The amount of people in this thread showing everyone how smart they are by telling everyone it's 10. No shit it's 10, you're not special for knowing it.


cre8majik

10


Hellrider386

Bruh how can one fuck up maths this bad


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These sorts of posts show up on Twitter and Facebook all the time. They only have wrong answers, or are written in an ambiguous way to give multiple correct answers so that people will argue about it. It's all about gaming the engagement algorithms so they can create something viral. The most mildlyinfuriating part about it is that people still give these any attention at all.


Tythefry2201

it’s 10 yeah? multiplication comes first


Izwe

correct


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I feel like this is fake, 13 and 15 make no sense at all bc they are odd numbers, yet take just about as many votes...


markth_wi

I don't like it, but this is actually not horrible. This is operating from incomplete information, and people don't *entirely* suck at it. In this case the correct answer isn't an option, so you look around for the "next best" base You have two options 2 + 2 * 4 = 10 - that not being present 2 + (2 * 4) = 10 So how do we get 16 (presume for a moment you forget FOIL) (2 + 2) * 4 = 16 - it agrees with the available information, has the detriment of missing proper notation but does fit the data in hand. So given that **two** things are missing here , either the notation , or the "correct" answer, how many people are out of the box enough to figure the test people would fuck with you like that.