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Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

wtf, i read this at work and go "pemdas", and you fuckers reopen the thread.

Answer is 2. Anyone who has any other answer is stupid uneducated and wrong. PEMDAS is universal mathmatical law.

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Nihilism is a copout.

The answer can be 2 or 288. Using grade-school arithmetic (PEDMAS) and assuming implied multiplication is the same as explicit multiplication the answer is 288. However, implied multiplication is often understood to take priority, in which case the answer is 2. The question is a troll though, no real math question would be written like this.



Ya, but PEMDAS/PEDMAS is a stupid mnemonic. The D/M and A/S are both interchangeable, but the mnemonic makes it hard to remember that. It's much better to rewrite any divisions as fractions and subtractions as negatives, which makes following the order of operations easier and makes the left-to-right rule unnecessary.

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PEMDAS

parenthesis / exponentials / multiplication AND division / addition AND subtraction

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Granted, that's all you'll ever do for real problems. I don't think anyone who's ever taken calculus (or shit, Algebra 2) will dispute fractions/negatives being superior. This isn't a real problem though.

If destruction exists, we must destroy everything.
Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

And some people spell "through" as "thru", but that doesn't make it English.

The point of the order of operations is that it's universal and consistent.

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lol god dammit. first i was like its 2 for sho, then i second guessed cuz i was like theres no way its that simple and got 288.

GOD DAMN TRICK MATH ITS BOTH I THINK NOW

48÷2(9+3) = 2
48÷2*(9+3) = 288

Agreed on trick math.

let me go make some popcorn before people start posting google calculator and wolfram alpha links.

oh! and excel spreadsheets. someone make a graff.

it's no

1÷2(3+4-5)
rogue rogue

but it'll do, pig, it'll do.

That's a damn good pig if I do say so myself.

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The point of this troll question is that it's not that simple. If I saw an equation "z=1/xy" on an exam, I would be 99% sure the prof intended it to be interpreted it as z=(1/x)(1/y), even though strict adherence to PEDMAS would yield z=y/x. In the real world, implied multiplication is often treated as higher priority, and insisting that grade school rules are the only way to interpret mathematical notation is just pedantic. What matters is being clear, and this question is not clear.

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