a very emphatic answer

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• manucode@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   40-32/2
  =40-16
  =24
  =4*3*2*1
  =4!
  

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The joke was also explained in the title of the post “A Very Emphatic Answer” which highlights the exclamation mark (emphasis) on the answer as being important.

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    • barkingspiders@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I certainly did not get it until you said the thing

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    • Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was primed by Reddit to expect the unexpected factorial

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  • Thteven@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah shit. I almost hate this one more than loss.

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• bisby@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate how these things always come up because “order of operations!” It’s mostly people who are bad at math remembering one topic they struggled with and finally got right, and now they know it’s a touchy subject so it will drive engagement. It’s the modern equivalent of “Mathematicians hate this one secret for solving equations! Click to find out!” Pure engagement bait.

  But in all the engineering ive done, things never really come up like this. If there is any potential clarity issues, parentheses would be used, or it would be formatted in a way that makes it much more clear.

  40 - (32/2), or 40 - ³²⁄₂ has no clarity issues imo. You don’t even have to think about order of operations because 32 halves is a number on its own. it isn’t an “operation” to do necessarily, it’s a fraction to reduce.

  And yes, I get the joke. The joke is making fun of the engagement bait of “some people will get the order of operations wrong!”

  The joke

  (40 - 32)/2 = 4 but the kid said “4!” not “4” 40 - (32/2) = 24 = 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 4!

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    s. If there is any potential clarity issues, parentheses would be used, or it would be formatted in a way that makes it much more clear.

    It reminds me of a very old xkcd that posits "communicating badly and acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness "

    xkcd.com/169/

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I knew XKCD is based, but this is new level

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who’s on first? :-)

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the same as “only 2% of people get this right! If you get it right you have a very strong brain!”. It’s just a little more devious about it.

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. I’ve only 2% of people get it, perhaps you’re just shitty at communicating.

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  • Ballistic_86@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does leave ambiguity with it being an, apparent, quote/dialogue. Correct and Incorrect are both correct depending on your POV and how you interpret social media posts

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love the insight on the bait.

    Thanks for the mathsplanation too.

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  • jackvito@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  40-32/2 _ 4! 40-16 _ 234 30-6 _ 2*12 24 = 24 Checks out.

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you mf

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll take that as a compliment. 💝

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• Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Throw up some brackets, you rage-baiting motherfucker!

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No actually the trick to this one is that Four-Factorial equals 24

    So 40 - 16 = 24

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    • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aha! Fair enough.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This one’s perfectly unambiguous without brackets, unlike the 1/2x stuff

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1/2x is also unambiguous. 2a=(2xa) by definition. Has done for at least 180 years. Terms

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  • 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t need brackets due to BODMAS Division comes before subtraction

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    • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s perfectly reasonable to read this as both (40-32)/2 and 40-(32/2) anywhere past basic math.

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    • EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even your “BODMAS” isn’t universal, lots of people learn “PEMDAS” or “BEDMAS”

      At any level of mathematics after elementary school, you never see terrible expressions like this. Well, except for facebook and twitter

      Take for example: 2/2*2 It is 0.5 or 2 depending on order. But if I were anything after high school (I was more complacent in high school, I guess) if someone gave me an arbitrarily solved equation or expression like this, I would be livid and raise hell at them for trying to do that.

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends if the kid said “four!” or “four factorial”

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    all maths must be said in a neutral tone lest you imply factorials

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  • 42yeah@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s how I say factorial though I just yell

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So Italians mathematicians put everything in factorial

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost as if the joke relies on the fact that in written form those are the same.

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• justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And that kids name? Mathew Matician.

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  • HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The kid who got it wrong? Numbers McCountyFingers.

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• Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Intentionally writing equations wrong is a special type of brain rot.

  40 - (32 / 2) = ?

  Ftfy.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The cleverness is that it works either way

    40-16=4!

    8/2=4

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But then there’s no joke/trick.

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  • teletext@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It really is.

      Just because it can be written The original way doesn’t mean it should be. It’s like developers that use obscure or single letter variables instead of descriptive variables. Sure, you can write variables in and obtuse manner, but it’s better for everyone if you write them in a descriptive manner.

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing wrong with the way it’s written - division before subtraction.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fun fact, ? = sqrt(-|x| / 0) for all real x

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually remember seeing this on my YouTube feed. I was pretty confused at first until I saw the factorial sign.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OH!

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• mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where is the bell curve

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s wrong, because:

  • i would never ask a kid something like that
  • there is a question mark missing
  • i don’t know any kids and they would probably just flip me off in that situation, which is okay, because they shouldn’t talk to strangers

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• KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not related. I love your username

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  • immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reject tradition, embrace crab

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• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Such a great post lmao

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What enrages me is the pairing of “wrong” and “correct”.

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• BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends on if it’s written or spoken. If spoken, correct. If written, incorrect.

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    4 factorial is correct lol

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    • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yee, I was in the midst of correcting myself since I was typing off my memory

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• jackvito@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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