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  • Viral Math Problem

    08/01/2019 4:58:47 AM PDT · by Renkluaf · 170 replies
    New York Post ^ | August 1, 2019 | Frank Miles
    “8÷2(2+2).” Can you solve this math problem? The equation went viral online this week on Twitter causing major confusion over the right answer. Mathematicians and physicists went nuts about it. Mike Breen, the Public Awareness Officer for the American Mathematical Society, told popular Mechanics: “The way it’s written, it’s ambiguous. In math, a lot of times there are ambiguities. Mathematicians try to make rules as precise as possible.” Depending on where in the world you learned math, as Mashable reported, determines how you can solve the problem.
  • 48÷2(9+3) = ?

    04/12/2011 1:32:09 PM PDT · by grundle · 669 replies
    Texas Instruments TI-85 says: 48÷2(9+3) = 2 But Texas Instruments TI-86 says: 48÷2(9+3) = 288