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 :)

  • Prunebutt@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

    I beg to differ. You utter fool! You created a comment section yourself on lemmy and you are clearly wrong about everything!

    You take the mean of 1 and 9 which is 4.5!

    /j

    • wischi@programming.devOP
      0·
      1 year 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 :-)

      • relevants@feddit.de
        01·
        1 year 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

        • wischi@programming.devOP
          0·
          1 year ago

          🤣 I’m not sure if you read the post but I also wrote about that (the paragraph right before “What about the real world?”)

          • relevants@feddit.de
            01·
            1 year ago

            I did read the post (well done btw), but I guess I must have missed that. And here I thought I was a comedic genius