Cyrus Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 1 hour ago, NashvilleNinja said: Yep. Math, in and of itself, is not ambiguous. The ambiguity in math is the ambiguity people leave behind. Math can be complicated, but complicated and ambiguous aren't the same thing. Google calculator immediately outputs this as 9. The calculator at this site https://www.desmos.com/scientific writes it as a fraction and automatically places the (2+1) at the bottom of the fraction, thus getting 1 as the output. But if you move the cursor up to the middle part of the fraction you get 9. That's actually the best visual representation of the debate that I've seen. People who are getting 1 as the answer are multiplying the sum in the parenthesis by the denominator in the fraction whereas the people getting 9 are multiplying the fraction, or rather the sum of dividing the numerator by the denominator, by the sum in the parenthesis. VS But there's never ambiguity in math! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleNinja Posted May 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 Just now, Cyrus said: But there's never ambiguity in math! "Your math hasn't been obfuscated yet. No one's has." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WG53 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 21 hours ago, LongTimeFan said: 1, in 6/2(3) the implied operator takes precedence. X Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WG53 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 17 hours ago, LongTimeFan said: I disagree. Implied operators come before known operators. So you are just another poster that gets literally everything wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeFan Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 10 minutes ago, WG53 said: So you are just another poster that gets literally everything wrong. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-correct-answer-of-6-2-2+1-1-or-9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WG53 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 1 minute ago, LongTimeFan said: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-correct-answer-of-6-2-2+1-1-or-9 It is 9. Linking quora as an authority. Goddamn you are stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeFan Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, WG53 said: It is 9. Linking quora as an authority. Goddamn you are stupid. You are too invested in this math problem.you are the fucking idiot. Graduated Tau Beta pi from my engineering school many years ago. I gave my supporting argument. Your support is 'I say so'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, WG53 said: It is 9. Linking quora Titans Report as an authority. Goddamn you are stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeFan Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/04/q-how-do-you-calculate-6212-or-48293-whats-the-deal-with-this-orders-of-operation-business/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WG53 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, LongTimeFan said: You are too invested in this math problem.you are the fucking idiot. Graduated Tau Beta pi from my engineering school many years ago. I gave my supporting argument. Your support is 'I say so'. I dont give a flying fuck about your imaginary degrees. Your supporting argument was from quora and is incorrect. My support is knowing the orders of operation and how they are applied correctly. oldschool 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleNinja Posted May 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 15 minutes ago, LongTimeFan said: You are too invested in this math problem.you are the fucking idiot. Graduated Tau Beta pi from my engineering school many years ago. I gave my supporting argument. Your support is 'I say so'. I'm sure the people who programmed the Google calculator have fairly impressive degrees themselves, but hey... whatever. Appeal to authority is appeal to authority. I'm happy for you that you have a piece of paper that says you know shit. But this isn't an equation that requires some advanced engineering degree to solve. And @Cyrus, like it or not you're a part of Titans Report too so... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WG53 Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 12 minutes ago, LongTimeFan said: http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/04/q-how-do-you-calculate-6212-or-48293-whats-the-deal-with-this-orders-of-operation-business/ Nice job providing a link to perform the equation just as I have already said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleNinja Posted May 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 15 minutes ago, LongTimeFan said: http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/04/q-how-do-you-calculate-6212-or-48293-whats-the-deal-with-this-orders-of-operation-business/ 3. Next, multiplication and division get carried out from left to right. So a*b/c*d is ((a*b)/c)*d. Note that division can be thought of as still carrying out a multiplication since a/b = a*(1/b), so it makes a certain sense that neither division nor multiplication takes precedence over one another. 1) Parenthesis (1+2)... 3 2) Exponents (there are none) 3) Multiplication & division, from left to right, 6/2 = 3 (3) = 9 4) Addition & subtraction (there is none left) 6 gets divided by whatever number is next... and it sure ain't 6 because no math problems in this equation have RESULTED in the sum of 6 YET. There was the pre-existing 6 at the beginning of the equation. And it gets divided by TWO because that is the very next number in the order. The resulting sum of 3 is then multiplied by whatever is left, and that is the number 3. In order to get 1 you have to first solve the parenthesis, then multiply 2 (3), and then divide 6/6... which means you're going from right to left. oldschool 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeFan Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 You quoted one person. There are others that say the opposite. Parentheses always takes precedence. It's just a poorly written equation. pat 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschool Posted May 10, 2018 Report Share Posted May 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Cyrus said: But there's never ambiguity in math! There isn't. it's poor code written by those who don't truly understand algebraic equations and the order of operations. Keep claiming but an online calculator told me it's 1! It just makes you sound even more pretentious because you won't just say my bad, I'm wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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