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
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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.
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.
🤣 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 :-)
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.
Yes it's the other way round. Parentheses are top priority.
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.
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.