Exactly
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SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I feel like I am getting trolled
Isn’t 17 the actual right answer?
NewDark@lemmings.world 9 hours ago
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
So it’s just an unfunny meme?
NewDark@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
I think it’s meant to play with your expectations. Normally someone’s take being posted is to show them being confidently stupid, otherwise it isn’t as interesting and doesn’t go viral.However, because we’re primed to view it from that lens, we feel crazy to think we’re doing the math correctly and getting the “wrong answer” from what we assume is the “confident dipshit”.
There’s layers beyond the superficial.
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 4 hours ago
I fell for it. It’s crazy to think how heavily I’ve been trained to believe everything I see is wrong in the most embarrassing and laughable way possible. That’s pretty depressing if you think about it.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 9 hours ago
As most memes are.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Not even a meme.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
[deleted]SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Yeah I know that. But I was feeling confused as to why it was here. That’s why I was feeling trolled, because it made me doubt basic math for being posted in a memes community.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 minutes ago
Gotcha gotcha, sorry
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 hours ago
They did the joke wrong. To do it right you need to use the ÷ symbol. Because people never use that after they learn fraction, people treat things like a + b ÷ c + d as
a + b ----- c + d
Or (a + b) ÷ (c + d) when they should be treating it as a + (b ÷ c) + d.
That’s the most common one of these “troll.math” tricks. Because notating as
a + b + d - c
Is much more common and useful. Do people get used to grouping everything around the division operator as if they’re in parentheses.
Zephorah@discuss.online 7 hours ago
Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Because OP posts garbage to all the meme communities.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 hours ago
This shit take got deleted right in front of my eyes
The system works
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Oh so just like me on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
There is no answer. Because there is no question.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
That is a problem, tho
polydactyl@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I know the solution
marcos@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Some people insist there’s no “correct” order for the basic arithmetic operations. And worse, some people insist the correct order is parenthesis first, then left to right.
Both of those sets of people are wrong.