Poll: 6÷2(1+2)

[Pawnless Endgame]

BUT THATS NOT STANDARD ORDER OF OPERATIONS YOU INNUMERATE PEON

Charming.

Plus, you wrote "thats" where it should be that's or that is. You, illiterate

 

[Begbie]

Its clearly 7

 

[guyfawkes5]

Charming.

Apparantly the dictum of this thread so far is that if you think the answer is anything other than the Preschool-Approved '9' you are "retarded".

Plus, you wrote "thats" where it should be that's or that is. You, illiterate

They say in the latest prints of the dictionary the word gull... oh nevermind.

In essence someone that uses the words 'innumerate peon' more than likely is aware of basic grammar, except in cases of intended effect of course...

 

[dowie]

Well he's probably the most intelligent and competent person I know, so I'm going with him on that it's ambiguous and I don't care what any randomer from GD says

There is no need to just blindly accept what someone you perceive to be intelligent says.

This isn't complicated.

1/2x = (1/2)x
1/2x != 1/(2x)

That is how the '/' symbol works - it isn't ambiguous. Confusing to some (and parenthesis should really be used in both cases to avoid this) but not ambiguous.

Or in simple terms - if you want the answer to be 1 then you'll need to add brackets.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6/2(1+2)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6/(2(1+2))

 

[Gammawolf]

It's 9.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Just realised that me swearing only gets me banned and doesn't close the thread.

Derp.

603 posts, not views, posts.

 

[Nitefly]

Why don't you just work through it yourself? Perhaps ask your amazing genius flatmate to revise the standard order of ops and do it himself.

I'm sure you are capable:

I'm not really sure if you are reading what we have written

If you go left to right in GCSE fashion, then yes, the answer is clearly 9.

But it can be constructed as this as nobody post GCSE ever uses the divide sign and it can be done so fairly:

I don't really have anything else to add for this conversation, but I would add that your attitude totally stinks in terms of getting people round to your view. No one that disagrees with you has been claiming anything as a matter of fact, just as a discussion and how they have viewed it. Many people of equal qualification are coming up with different answers, that's all there is to it. If you want to conclude it's 9, then fine.

So I'll go and work on my admittedly poor mathematics and you can go and work on your poor communication and people skills - we'll call it even stevens

 

[Jokester]

There isn't. We weren't taught the standard order of operations at school - we were taught an order of operations (BODMAS, etc).

This is the standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#The_standard_order_of_operations

If your teachers taught you BODMAS and called it the standard order of operations, they are wrong and just because someone has told you an incorrect fact does not require me to pander to it.

Hahaha, it doesn't help that someone has been editing the Mnemonics section on the wiki article to change the correct answer for this very question from 1 to 9 today either.

 

[Pinkribbonscars]

The / symbol is still a simplification for proper fraction notation though, the question should be correctly written as fractions.

 

[Wyrdo]

Hahaha, it doesn't help that someone has been editing the Mnemonics section on the wiki article to change the correct answer for this very question from 1 to 9 today either.

lol

 

[Nitefly]

There is no need to just blindly accept what someone you perceive to be intelligent says.

This isn't complicated.

1/2x = (1/2)x
1/2x != 1/(2x)

That is how the '/' symbol works - it isn't ambiguous. Confusing to some (and parenthesis should really be used in both cases to avoid this) but not ambiguous.

Or in simple terms - if you want the answer to be 1 then you'll need to add brackets.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6/2(1+2)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6/(2(1+2))

Well, read all my posts in this thread and see if you think I have made any blind conclusions. I even admit I'm wrong on something earlier on.

 

[Nitefly]

Hahaha, it doesn't help that someone has been editing the Mnemonics section on the wiki article to change the correct answer for this very question from 1 to 9 today either.

lol

 

[JBod]

My C at GCSE maths states the answer as 9. FACT.

 

[nas]

The answer is 1. Fact.

6/2(1+2) ... 6/2(3) ... 6/6 = 1

 

[fornowagain]

Hahaha, it doesn't help that someone has been editing the Mnemonics section on the wiki article to change the correct answer for this very question from 1 to 9 today either.

Now that is funny. Well spotted.

 

[therandom]

Well the standard way would be that it = 9

I hate to see any of your flatmate's production code.

The equation would be evaluated differently depending on the language you were using. Hence its ambiguity from a Computer Science perspective.

 

[dowie]

Well, read all my posts in this thread and see if you think I have made any blind conclusions. I even admit I'm wrong on something earlier on.

I don't have the time nor inclination to do that and without wanting to sound arrogant my previous post details why the answer is 9.

This isn't really something to debate or have an opinion over - there is a standard way of using '/' and following that it is quite clearly 9.

 

[jak731]

Oh dear

6/2(1+2)=6*(1/2)*(1+2)=6*0.5*3=9

or

6/2(1+2)=6/2*3=3*3=9

As others have said you need more brackets for it to = 1.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

This isn't really something to debate or have an opinion over - there is a standard way of using '/' and following that it is quite clearly 9.

There is no use explaining that. Nitefly is being wilfully ignorant about it. If he worked through it himself (takes 10 seconds) using the standard order, he'd arrive at the right answer - regardless of what his genius flatmate says.

 

[Nitefly]

There is no use explaining that. Nitefly is being wilfully ignorant about it. If he worked through it himself (takes 10 seconds) using the standard order, he'd arrive at the right answer - regardless of what his genius flatmate says.

If you go left to right in GCSE fashion, then yes, the answer is clearly 9.

And stop bringing my housemate into it, I was just using him to show that people from similar backgrounds (computer science) may conclude differently.