https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It’s about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it’s worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I’m probably biased because I wrote it :)

  • wischi@programming.devOP
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    11 months ago

    🤣 I wasn’t even sure if I should post it on lemmy. I mainly wrote it so I can post it under other peoples posts that actually are intended to artificially create drama to hopefully show enough people what the actual problems are with those puzzles.

    But I probably am a fool and this is not going anywhere because most people won’t read a 30min article about those math problems :-)

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      11 months ago

      Actually the correct answer is clearly 0.2609 if you follow the order of operations correctly:

      6/2(1+2)
      = 6/23
      = 0.26