Comment on I dunno

SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 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.

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• NewDark@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Exactly

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So it’s just an unfunny meme?

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As most memes are.

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not even a meme.

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• pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • 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.

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Gotcha gotcha, sorry

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    • 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.

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    • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because OP posts garbage to all the meme communities.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This shit take got deleted right in front of my eyes

        The system works

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      • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh so just like me on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is no answer. Because there is no question.

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is a problem, tho

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    • polydactyl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know the solution

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