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wischi OP , (edited ) to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

Thank you for reading the post, and thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed and live in the next few minutes.

Update: Also fixed that sentence. Thank you so much.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

That’s the correct answer if you follow one of the conventions. There are actually two conflicting but equally valid conventions. The blog explains the full story but this math problem is really ambiguous.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

What is the correct answer according to the convention you follow?

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

Thank you so much for taking the time. I’m also not convinced that APS’s notation is a very good choice but I’m neither american nor a physisist 🤣

I’d love to see how the exceptions work that the APS added, like allowing explicit multiplications on line-breaks, if they still would do the multiplication first, but I couldn’t find a single instance where somebody following the APS notation had line-break inside an expression.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

Oh sry. I’m one of those people who are to stupid to detect sarcasm in text comments, unless it’s very obvious. Probably a combination of it actually being a hard problem and me not being a native speaker.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

Exactly. With the blog post I try to reach people who already heared that some people say it’s ambiguous but either down understand how, or don’t believe it. I’m not sure if that will work out because people who “already know the only correct answer” probably won’t read a 30min blog post.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

I’d really like to know if and how your view on that matter would change once you read the full post. I know it’s very long and a lot of people won’t read it because they “already know” the answer but I’m pretty sure it would shift your perception at least a bit if you find the time to read it.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

I’d would be great if you find the time to read the post and let me know afterwards what you think. It actually looks trivial as a problem but the situation really isn’t, that’s why the article is so long.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

It’s actually “both”. There are two conventions. One is a bit more popular in science and engineering and the other one in the general population. It’s actually even more complicated than that (thus the long blog post) but the most correct answer would be to point out that the implicit multiplication after the division is ambiguous. So it’s not really “solvable” in that form without context.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

🤣 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 :-)

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

True, and it’s not only about learning math but that there is actually no consensus even amongst experts, about the priority of implicit multiplications (without explicit multiplication sign). In the blog post there are a lot of things that try to show why and how that’s the case.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

Yes it’s the other way round. Parentheses are top priority.

wischi OP , to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

The full story is actually more nuanced than most people think, but the post is actually very long (about 30min) so thank you in advance if you really find the time to read it.

wischi , to technology in Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated

That’s true. Statistical models are very carefully engineered and tested and current machine learning models are created by throwing a lot of training data at the software and hope for the best that the things that the model learns are not complete bullshit.

wischi , to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

It’s probably not, and now?

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