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Memes related to mathematics.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Sorry but what is unclear in OPs image?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network -5 points 1 day ago (15 children)

25 - 5 ÷ 5 when read naively left to right looks like it would be "25 - 5 = 20. Then take that and divide by 5, for an answer of 4". It would be clearer to write it as (25 - 5) ÷ 5 or 25 - (5 ÷ 5) depending on what's intended.

You see those kind of "gotcha!" posts online sometimes, where someone posts a problem that tempts you into doing order of operations wrong.

Someone who sees how to do it correctly immediately and thinks everyone knows that is invited to view https://xkcd.com/2501/ as well.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Natively? It's a math equation there is only one way to read it as far as I am aware.

[–] casmael@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Hear hear

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